John Richardson, the British-born art historian and curator who devoted more than a quarter century to writing a monumental four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died Tuesday at his home in ...

Born in London, Richardson’s first Picasso book, A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906, came out in 1991 and was followed by two later volumes. Richardson had been well into a fourth volume, in ...

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, John Richardson is featured in A Life of Picasso: Volume Iv by John Richardson Review - Stranger Things, a piece from The Guardian in March 2022.

John Richardson’s multitivolume “Life of Picasso” has become an institution. Mr. Richardson, who has even set up his own foundation — the John Richardson Fund for Picasso Research — has been ...

Note the article: This is "a" life, not "the" life of Picasso (1881-1973). That refusal of the magisterial -- a word already used by critics to describe this ongoing biography -- is honest and ...