A Life of Picasso Volume II: 1907-1917: The Painter of Modern Life.

RICHARDSON, John; with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully.

$400.00

Item Number: 145269

New York: Random House, 1996.

First edition of the second volume in Richardson’s four-volume biography of the famous artist. Small quarto, original publisher’s white embossed cloth, frontispiece of a self-portrait photograph by Picasso 1912, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Boldly signed by John Richardson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

'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 Compiled through exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, this analysis not only reads with incredible narrative excellence but also with extraordinary scholarly range.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 second volume of the series follows a young Picasso as he and Georges Braque jumpstart the cubist revolution.