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John Richardson

In conversation with Alan Jones

Monday, December 3, 2007  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Art critic John Richardson is a foremost expert on Pablo Picasso. In his acclaimed series A Life of Picasso, Richardson details the painter's complex history. The series' three volumes - The Prodigy, The Cubist Rebel, and The Triumphant Years - have been called the definitive work of biography on Picasso and a significant contribution to twentieth-century cultural history. John Richardson lived in the south of France for twelve years after 1949, helping build a private museum of cubism at the Chateau de Cocteau. At that time, Richardson befriended Picasso and his contemporaries Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, and Jean Cocteau. Picasso encouraged Richardson to analyze his portraiture; a part of this landmark study is incorporated in A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years. A contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, John Richardson was formerly the head of Christie's U.S. operation and a professor of Fine Art at Oxford University.

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