Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential ...

“Of all the problems besetting Picasso in late 1932,” the fourth volume of John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso begins, “foremost was the misery of married life with his Russian wife Olga”. Unshielded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was his most expensive painting? What were his views on the Franco regime? Here are 10 facts about the painter deemed the "genius of the century." Estimates vary, and it depends how you define a ...

"Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" collects the 1904-1913 cartoons of Winsor McCay, who went on to greater fame with his Little Nemo in Slumberland strips. Image from "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" Book sales ...

Pablo Picasso’s extraordinary versatility marks his artistic journey. From Cubist portraits to striking sculptures, his work ...