A Life of Picasso

by John Richardson

  18. Stainton, 425–6.

  19. Ibid., 426.

  20. Gibson 1989, 446.

  21. Lorca, quoted in ibid., 443.

  22. Paul Eluard, Lettres à Gala (Paris: Galli-mard, 1984), 158.

  23. “We resolutely denounce the use of this affair to generate publicity for themselves…. we do not accept the line taken by those pretentious intellectuals…. The surrealists’ position is bullshit … their revolutionary zeal merely verbal.” L’Humanité, February 9, 1932.

  24. Gertje R. Utley, Picasso: The Communist Years (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 14–15.

  25. Otero, 183.

  26. Van Hensbergen, 10.

  27. “Ante el traslado a Madrid de los restos de Pablo Picasso,” La Gaceta Literaria, March 1, 1931.

  28. Douglas W Foard, The Revolt of the Aesthetes (Ernesto Giménez Caballero and the Origins of Spanish Fascism) (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1989), 228.

  29. See Ernesto Giménez Caballero’s accounts of the meeting with Picasso in El Arte y el Estado (Madrid: Gráficas Universal, 1935), 43–9; Giménez Caballero; and Retratos españoles (Bastante parecidos) (Barcelona: Planeta, 1985), 139–42.

  30. Giménez Caballero, 140.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid., 142.

  33. Ibid., 140.

  34. Ibid., 142.

  35. Ibid.

  36. Otero, 181.

  37. Giménez Caballero, 140.

  38. Ibid.

  39. Otero, 181–2.

  40. Van Hensbergen, 11. See also Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer’s account of “Arte y Estado” in La Estética del Franquismo (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1977), 56–68.

  41. Under the sponsorship of ADLAN (Amics de l’art nou), the Picasso exhibition, which included twenty-five paintings, drawings, and papiers collés, opened first in Barcelona in January 1936. The exhibition traveled to Bilbao, where it was sponsored by GATEPAC, and Madrid. A planned showing in Málaga failed to take place because of the war.

  42. Pando Despierto, 37.

  43. Dora Maar to the author.

  44. According to Boris Taslitsky in conversation with the author and McCully

  45. See Vol. I, 463, 580 n. 1.

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  All images by Pablo Picasso are © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  All the images in these pages credited to the Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso have been made available courtesy of the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Please note that these photographs are mostly unposed snapshots that can in most cases be attributed to Olga Picasso or Pablo Picasso. However, unless the identity of the photographer is self-evident, the credit should read, “photographer unknown.”

  Frontispiece: Photographer unknown. Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY

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  2 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  4 Photograph © BnF.

  10 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi.

  13 © Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zurich (photograph SIAR).

  15 Image © Ryersson & Yaccarino/The Casati Archives.

  17 Photograph © RMN/Madeleine Coursaget/Art Resource, NY.

  20 Photograph © Alinari/Art Resource, NY.

  22 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  24 Photograph © RMN/Art Resource, NY.

  25 Photograph © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN/Jacques Fajour/Art Resource, NY.

  27 Photograph © The Art Institute of Chicago.

  28 (both) Photograph © Alinari/Art Resource, NY.

  29 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. All Rights Reserved.

  32 Private collection.

  33 Private collection.

  35 Photograph © BnF.

  41 Left: Photograph © RMN/René-Gabriel Ojéda/Art Resource, NY. Right: Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved. Photograph © RMN/Hervé Lewandowski/Art Resource, NY.

  42 Photograph © RMN/Madeleine Coursaget/Art Resource, NY.

  45 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY.

  50 Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  55 Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

  58 Photograph © Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva.

  61, 63, 64 Photographs © Museu Picasso, Barcelona/Ramon Muro.

  69 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. All Rights Reserved.

  73 Photograph © Boris Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images.

  75 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  77 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  79 Photograph © RMN/Madeleine Coursaget/Art Resource, NY.

  80 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY.

  84, 87 (both) Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  88 Private collection.

  89 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  90 Private collection.

  91 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  94, 95 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  96 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  98 Private collection. Courtesy Succession Picasso Paris.

  100 Photograph © BnF.

  105 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY.

  106 Photograph © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN/Philippe Migeat/Art Resource, NY.

  107 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fun-dación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  109 Private collection.

  112 Photograph © Popperfoto/Classicstock.com.

  116 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  118 Photograph © RMN/Michèle Bellot/Art Resource, NY.

  119 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  121 Photographer unknown. Photograph © RMN/Art Resource, NY.

  125 Photograph © BnF.

  133 Photograph © Tate, London 2007.

  137 Left: Private collection. Right: Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  138 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, 148.1951. Photograph © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

  139 Photograph Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo.

  142 Private collection. Courtesy Succession Picasso Paris.

  143 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  146 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  149 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  150 Photograph © RMN/Gérard Blot/Art Resource, NY.

  152 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY.

  153 Photograph © RMN/Christian Jean/Art Resource, NY.

  156 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fun-dación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  159 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/ Art Resource, NY.

  160 Igor Stravinsky Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  162 Private collection. Photograph © Christie’s Images, Ltd. [1985].

  163 Left: Photograph © The National Gallery, London. Right: Photograph © Musée de Grenoble.

  164 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

 
165 Photograph © RMN/Art Resource, NY.

  167 The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1965.783. Photograph © The Art Institute of Chicago.

  170 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fun-dación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  173 Photograph by Bert Sabourin. © RMN/ Michèle Bellot.

  174 Left: Photograph by Man Ray. Photograph © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP-ARS/Telimage 2007. Right: © Collection PFB/Rue des Archives.

  176 Left: Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris. Right: Photograph © akg–images/CDA/

  182 Guillemot. 182 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art

  184 Resource, NY. 184 © The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

  189 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fun-dación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  190 Photograph © Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

  193 Photograph © RMN/Daniel Arnaudet/Art Resource, NY.

  194 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. John S. Newberry Collection. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

  195 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1932 (32.105). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  196 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 (1984.433.270). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  197 Photograph © Alinari/Art Resource, NY.

  202 Photograph © Lebrecht Music and Arts/The Image Works.

  205 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke and Mr. William T Aldrich. All Rights Reserved. Photography by Erik Gould. Every effort has been made to determine the copyright holder of this work.

  209 Photograph from catalog, courtesy Artcurial, Paris. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  211 Private collection.

  213 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  214 The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland BMA 1950.279. Photograph The Baltimore Museum of Art.

  215 Left: Photograph © RMN/René-Gabriel Ojéda/Art Resource, NY. Right: Photograph © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesita/ Jens Ziehe/Art Resource, NY.

  216 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  217 © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.

  219 Collection Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photograph Marc Domage, All Rights Reserved.

  222 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, James Thrall Soby Bequest. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

  223 Left: Photograph © Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva. Right: Photograph © Alinari/Art Resource, NY.

  224 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  229 Photograph by Man Ray. © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP-ARS/Telimage 2007.

  232 Collection Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photograph Marc Domage, All Rights Reserved.

  234 Collection Pierre Joannon. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  235 Private collection.

  237 Left: Archives Picasso, Musée Picasso, Paris. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved. Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage. Right and at bottom: Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographers unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  239 Photograph © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kul-turbesitz/Jens Ziehe/Art Resource, NY.

  241 Left: Collection Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photograph Eric Baudouin, All Rights Reserved. Right: Private collection. Copyright Christie’s Images, Ltd., [2001].

  244 Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/Art Resource, NY.

  245 Image courtesy Daniel Wolf, Inc., NY.

  249 Photograph © Marcel Ravel, All Rights Reserved.

  250 Frontispiece from Le Viable au Corps, by Raymond Radiguet.

  256 Photograph © RMN/Franck Raux/Art Resource, NY.

  258 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  259 Photograph © RMN/Michèle Bellot/Art Resource, NY.

  260 Photograph © RMN/Daniel Arnaudet/Art Resource, NY.

  261 Photograph © RMN/Philippe Bernard.

  262 Photograph © Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

  264 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. All Rights Reserved.

  266 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  267 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  268 Photograph © RMN/Art Resource, NY.

  269 Photograph © Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

  271 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  273 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  276 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2006. All Rights Reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk.

  277 Photograph © Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva.

  279 Photograph © BnF

  281 Top and left: Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographers unknown, All Rights Reserved. Bottom right: Photograph © BnF.

  284 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. All Rights Reserved.

  286 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  287 Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  288 Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved. Digital Photograph Miranda Routh © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly, Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

  291 Left: Private collection. Photograph © Heinz Preute, Courtesy Kunstmuseum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Right: Photograph Poupard-Lieussou, All Rights Reserved.

  292 Photograph © RMN/Madeleine Coursaget/Art Resource, NY.

  295 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  302 Left: Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s. Right: Orlando Photos.

  303 Photograph © RMN/Madeleine Coursaget/Art Resource, NY.

  304 Above: Photograph © CNAC/MNAM/ Dist. RMN/Art Resource, NY. Below: Photograph © RMN/Thierry Le Mage/ Art Resource, NY.

  307 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  309 Left: Photograph © RMN/Hervé Lewandowski/Art Resource, NY. Right: Photograph © BnF.

  311 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  312 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  313 Left: Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris. Right: Photograph © RMN/Gérard Blot/Art Resource, NY.

  314 Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  315 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  325 Private collection. Courtesy Succession Picasso Paris.

  330 Collection Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photograph Marc Domage, All Rights Reserved.

  331 Left: Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris. Right: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of James Thrall Soby. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

  332 Alsdorf Collection.

  333 Photograph © RMN/René-Gabriel Ojéda/Art Resource, NY.

  338 Photograph © RM
N/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  339 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  343 Collection Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. © Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photograph Eric Baudouin, All Rights Reserved.

  344 Photograph © RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  346 Left: From Gray’s Anatomy, 15th edition, 1901, page 214. Right: Photograph © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  352 Left: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. William Sisler and Edward James Fund. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY. Right: Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  355 Photograph © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN/Philippe Migeat/Art Resource, NY.

  356 Photograph © RMN/Franck Raux/Art Resource, NY.

  358 Left: Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved. Right: Photograph © Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva

  359 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  360 Private collection. © Cahiers d’Art, Paris.

  364 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  365 Photograph © RMN/Béatrice Hatala/Art Resource, NY.

  366 Private collection. Courtesy Succession Picasso Paris.

  367 Left, top: Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved. Right: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Florene M. Schoen-born, 1995 (1996.403.4). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Left, bottom: Photograph © RMN/Arnaudet/Art Resource, NY.

  368 Archives Olga Ruiz-Picasso, Courtesy Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. Photographer unknown, All Rights Reserved.

  370 Left: Photograph © RMN/P Bernard/Art Resource, NY. Right: Photograph © RMN/ Jean-Gilles Berizzi/Art Resource, NY.

  376 Photographer unknown. Photograph © RMN.

  380 Photograph © RMN/René-Gabriel Ojéda/Art Resource, NY.

  381 Left: Photograph taken by Picasso. Archives Picasso, Musée Picasso, Paris. Photograph © RMN/Gérard Blot. Right: Photograph © RMN/Réne-Gabriel Ojéda/Art Resource, NY.

  382 Photograph © Alinari/Art Resource, NY.