![]() Interviewed by Alain Elkann in 2016, Richardson stated that he had reached 1939 and hoped to “go through the war”.Īt the opening of a Picasso show, Minotaurs and Matadors, that he curated at the Gagosian Gallery in London the following year, he said that he had received “a mass” of new papers: “It is a bit of a nightmare but I do my best to cope with it.”Īt least part of the reason for the gap of many years between volumes was because the fees to the Picasso estate for reproductions of his work were so high that Richardson was forced into writing volumes of memoirs to raise money. ![]() This left fully 41 years to cover in the fourth volume, originally due for publication in 2014 but still awaited, through the affair with Dora Maar, the painting of Guernica and Picasso’s death in 1973 after a fecund late period. ![]()
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