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Transformer ; The brilliant alchemy of Picasso's mature years, acutely rendered in John Richardson's biography
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BOOK REVIEW
A Life of Picasso: The
Triumphant Years,
1917-1932
By John Richardson
Knopf, 592 pp., illustrated, $40
No one is better qualified than John Richardson to explore the
extraordinary life of Pablo Picasso, the single most influential
artist of the 20th century. Richardson, born in England in 1924,
studied art, but became a writer and ballet critic. From 1949 until
1961 he lived in France, where he became friends with Picasso,
Braque, Leger, and the versatile writer Jean Cocteau. Since 1961 he
has lived in New York, producing books about Manet and Braque among
others, but above all his ...
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