![]() Like Leon Edel's five-volume epic on Henry James and Richard Ellmann's "James Joyce," Richardson's books were regarded as biographies of the highest literary quality, graced by knowledge, poetry, passion and insight. But he did not immediately know the title, what years it would cover or when it would be published.Īrt lovers had looked forward to Richardson's Picasso writings the way readers of politics have anticipated Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson series. Latimer said that Richardson had been well into a fourth volume, in the works for over a decade. The London-born Richardson's first Picasso book, "A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906" came out in 1991, and was followed by editions covering 32. Knopf, said Richardson died Tuesday morning at his Manhattan home. ![]() Nicholas Latimer, a vice president and senior director of publicity at Alfred A. NEW YORK (AP) - Sir John Richardson, the eminent historian and critic whose multivolume series on Pablo Picasso drew upon his personal and aesthetic affinity for the Spanish painter and was widely praised as a work of art in its own right, has died. ![]()
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