A Life of Picasso: Volume I 1881-1906.

RICHARDSON, John; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully [Pablo Picasso].

$600.00

Item Number: 146213

New York: Random House, 1991.

First edition of the first volume in Richardson’s four-volume biography of the famous artist. Small quarto, original cream pictorial cloth, frontispiece portrait of Picasso in charcoal, illustrated with about 900 black and white drawings and paintings throughout. Boldly signed by John Richardson on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rochelle Udell and Wynn Dan. Author photograph by David Bailey. Rare signed.

'A Life of Picasso' is the definitive biography of Spanish artist Picasso. Compiled through exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, this analysis not only reads with incredible narrative excellence but also with extraordinary scholarly range. The first volume navigates the life of Picasso until the age of 25, detailing the successes and struggles of his youth. "Picasso biography has been a wasteland. Richardson's is the first truly serious attempt at achieving the impossible" (William Rubin, The Museum of Modern Art).