A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932   Paperback – October 12, 2010

by John Richardson (Author)

Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso.
Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in the company of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. These are the years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova—the mother of his only legitimate child, Paulo—and of his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was, as well, his model and muse.

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Pablo Picasso in Mougins, France in 1971. Photo: Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images.

Picasso’s Tortured Relationship to Women – “Women are machines for suffering,” Picasso once told his mistress Françoise Gilot. The Paris Review details the artist’s toxic dynamic with women through interviews with family members and mistresses. “For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats,” he told Gilot. (The Paris Review)

Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme au chapeau (1939), sold for $21.7 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.