The final volume of biography by Richardson, who died before finishing it, is a thrilling survey of Picasso’s surrealist era John Richardson opens the final (fourth) volume of his magisterial biography of Pablo Picasso with the artist in more than usual disarray. The year is 1933 and, while his celebrity and his wealth are unassailable, Picasso’s marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova has entered its bitter endgame. Meanwhile, his relationship with maîtresse-en-titre Marie-Thérèse Walter, … Kathryn Hughes-A Life of Picasso: Volume IV by John Richardson review – stranger thingsRead more
