This was all taking place from 1946 to 1953.” The sculpture involved the bits of rubbish that he found in the Vallauris dumps and were metamorphosed from trash into art. “Besides getting to know her paintings, I gained enormous knowledge of the crucial period in Vallauris, France, in which Picasso transformed the craft of ceramics and the medium of lithography and developed a new approach to sculpture.
Elsewhere were beautiful lamps, divans, and works by Picasso, Braque, Warhol (a portrait of Richardson), and Joshua Reynolds (a portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales), among others. On an antique table nearby was a small portrait of him by Lucian Freud. “I learned an enormous amount from Françoise,” Richardson said in an interview in his Fifth Avenue apartment. Richardson is an international adviser to the gallery and has organized three other Picasso shows for Gagosian. Last spring, Richardson cocurated a Picasso show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York with Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s mistress and the mother of their children, Claude Picasso and Paloma Picasso. It was followed by The Cubist Rebel, 1907– 1916 in 1996 and The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 in 2007. The first volume, The Prodigy, 1881– 1906, was published in 1991. It will cover the years from 1933 until Picasso’s death in 1973.
He is completing the fourth and final volume of his highly acclaimed biography, A Life of Picasso, which is scheduled to be published by Knopf in 2014. “As I get older and older, I get more and more astonished the deeper I get into his work,” Richardson told me recently.
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