These are the closing words in the fourth volume of Richardson’s mammoth biography of Picasso, and are the last we will have from him, for he died in 2019 at the age of 95. Maar’s confession is ...

“Picasso used to be a great painter,” Georges Braque was fond of saying, only partly in jest. “Now he is merely a genius.” To remove the tired screens of celebrity and myth that concealed Picasso was ...

British art historian John Richardson, known for his multi-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died today at age 95. A representative from Knopf, Richardson’s publisher, confirmed the news. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The years since Picasso’s death have seen a reappraisal of this period, and just about every other aspect of Picasso’s work and life. Audiences are more conscious of his abusive behaviors and critical ...

Pablo Picasso's grandson Olivier Picasso talks onscreen portrayals, book about painter, and his grandfather's legacy in the art world. By Ingrid Schmidt “He was probably the first rock star in the ...

For the second season of their National Geographic Channel anthology series “Genius,” showrunner Ken Biller and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer turn their attention from Albert Einstein to Pablo ...