A Life Of Picasso Volume III

Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into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.This extraordinary biography ends with the completion of a dramatic series of drawings of the crucifixion. From then on the horrors of war would replace any private horrors, leading ultimately to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

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The magisterial third volume in John Richardson's prize-winning life of the great artist

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John Richardson

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'Out of the detail the man Picasso emerges, as startling as a character in any good novel...it is glorious to read the story of an artist which does not make the sins count for more than the paintings, does not forget the life while theorising the paintings to dust. Richardson is writing the life of Picasso without ever forgetting the point of him' Michael Pye, Scotsman

'*No man is better qualified to write the biography of Picasso...he writes with such fluency, simplicity and clarity that his knowledge and illuminating wisdom are very lightly borne...a marvellous book' Brian Sewell, *Evening Standard

Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material,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 sculptures and paintings. These are tumultuous years with Picasso torn
between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife,
and the erotic passion of his mistress Marie-Thérèse.

This extraordinary biography ends with the completion of a dramatic series of
drawings of the crucifixion. From then on the horrors of war would replace any
private horrors, leading ultimately to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

'Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific company.
This volume joins its predecessors as unrivalled among artists' biographies' Financial
Times

'Monumental' Independent on Sunday