A life of Picasso. Vol.3, The triumphant years, 1917-1932 / John Richardson ; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully.
By: Richardson, John
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Contributor(s): McCully, Marilyn.
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BookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007Description: xiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9780224031219.Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 | Artists -- Spain -- Biography | CubismDDC classification: 759.6 PIC
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.6 PIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00192421 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. The Triumphant Years reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. These are tumultuous years, Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife, and the erotic passion of his mistress, Marie-Therese.
Rome and Naples would inspire the classicism in Picasso's work of the early twenties and Richardson reveals how the mercurial, witty Cocteau introduced him to the aristocratic and artistic world of Paris, including the de Noailles art patrons who backed the surrealist films of Bu ñ uel and Dali. Picasso was amused by Tristan Tzara and the Dadaists but resisted the advances of André Breton and the Surrealists. Sara and Gerald Murphy, whom he met in the south of France, would introduce him to Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
With The Triumphant Years , Richardson has written a masterful and compelling biography full of valuable and intriguing research about the most important artist of the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
John Patrick Richardson was born in London, England on February 6, 1924. He was attending the Slade School of Fine Art in London when World War II broke out. He was drafted into the British Army but was discharged after catching rheumatic fever. During the war, he worked as an industrial designer by day and an air-raid warden and firefighter at night. After the war, he wrote for The New Statesman and other publications, sometimes using the pseudonym Richard Johnson.He became an art historian and curator. At various time during his life, he was an artist, a dealer, an auction-house executive, and an author. In the early 1960s, Christie's, hired him to open a New York office. He left Christie's in 1973 to work for the Knoedler Gallery, where he was put in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting. He was later named managing director of Artemis, an art investment fund. By the 1980s, he wrote for several publications including Vanity Fair and The New York Review of Books. He wrote numerous books including The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper; Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters; and a four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso. The first volume won the Whitbread Award. He organized several art exhibitions featuring Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. In 2012, he knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died on March 12, 2019 at the age of 95.
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