LIFE OF PICASSO III,A(ISBN=9780375711510)

Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso.

Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in the company of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. These are the years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova—the mother of his only legitimate child, Paulo—and of his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was, as well, his model and muse.

A groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

John Richardson is the author of a memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, an essay collection; he also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. In 1995–96 he served as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. He divides his time between Connecticut and New York City.

1.  Rome and the Ballets Russes (1917)
2.  Naples
3.  Parade
4.  The Ballet in Spain
5.  With Olga in Barcelona (Fall 1917)
6.  Return to Montrouge (Winter 1917-18)
7.  Marriage (Summer 1918)
8.  Death of Apollinaire (1918)
9.  RuelaBo4tie (1918-19)
10.  London and Tricorne (1919)
11.  Summer at Saint-Raphael (The Gueridon)
12.  Pulcinella (1919-20)
13.  Summer atJuan-les-Pins (1920)
14.  L'Epoque des Duchesses (1921)
15.  Summer at Fontainebleau
16.  BeauMonde (1921-22)
17.  Paris (1923)
18.  Summer at Cap d'Antibes
19.  Cocteau and Radiguet
20.  Mercure (1924)
21.  Still Lifes at La Vigie (Summer 1924)
22.  LaDanse(1925)
23.  The Villa Belle Rose (Summer 1925)
24.  Masterpiece Studio (1925-26)
25.  Summer at La Haie Blanche (1926)
26.  Marie-Th6rSse Walter (1927)
27.  Summer of Metamorphosis
28.  The Apollinaire Monument (1927-28)
29.  The Beach at Dinard (1928)
30.  The Sculptor (1928-29)
31.  Woman in the Garden (1929)
32.  The Bones of Vesalius (1929-30)
33.  Golgotha (1930)
34.  L'Affaire Picasso
35.  Chateau de Boisgeloup
36.  The Shadow of Ovid
37.  Annus Mirabilis I---The Sculpture (1931)
38.  Annus Mirabilis II--The Paintings (1931-1932)
39.  Paris and Zurich Retrospective (1932)
Epilogue
Short Titles
Notes
Index