A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917: 2 - Hardcover

Richardson, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394559185 ISBN 13: 9780394559186

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The second volume in a definitive biography of the artistic genius follows the most revolutionary period in Picasso's career, shedding new light on the private life, psychological make-up, and artistic evolution of the century's most famous painter. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

"John Richardson's second volume on Picasso confirms what his first suggested: that this is a masterpiece in the making, the most illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth-century visual artist... A continuous pleasure to read" (Robert Hughes)

"Magisterial...Richardson's ambitious project dwarfs all previous biographies of Picasso... [He] has a gift for telling pen-portraits and makes vivid an entire gallery of pioneering dealers and early collectors." (Frances Spalding Sunday Times)

"Richardson covers [the] momentous ten years from 1907 to the end of the First World War with great elegance and quiet authority... What makes the two published volumes so outstanding is the sense of Picasso the man emerging - in all his complexity - alongside the superb analysis of Picasso the artist" (William Boyd Spectator)

From the Publisher:

The second volume of Richardson's authoritative and bestselling biography of Picasso

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0394559185
• ISBN 13: 9780394559186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500