The actor Antonio Banderas celebrated the world premiere of Genius: Picasso in the artist’s hometown of Málaga in southern Spain last night. (It happens to be Banderas’s hometown, too.) The actor ...

Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography By Norman Mailer, Atlantic Monthly Press, $35, 400 pp. Much of “Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man” is a shameless, cut-and- paste job.

“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 ...

John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943 (Cape) dominated reviews this weekend alongside notable titles in fiction including Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & ...

“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 ...

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 ...