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A Life of Picasso: Volum II: 1907-1917
by Richardson, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0394559185
- ISBN 13
- 9780394559186
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1996. First Edition. Hardbound. VG/VG. Cream stamped cloth with black spine lettering, black dust jacket with color illustration and tan lettering, x, 500 pp., many BW illus. The second of the four-volume in-depth biography of famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).
Synopsis
John Richardson is the author of a memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; an essay collection, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters; and books on Manet and Braque. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair . He was instrumental in setting up Christie’s in the United States. In 1993 he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165973
- Title
- A Life of Picasso: Volum II: 1907-1917
- Author
- Richardson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394559185
- ISBN 13
- 9780394559186
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- European Artists ; Picasso, Pablo ; ;
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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