Sir John Richardson Profiled in The Financial Times

May 26th, 2013

Renowned art historian Sir John Richardson is profiled in a long interview with the Financial Times this week, speaking about his life, his career, and his expansive biography of Pablo Picasso. “I used to bounce out of bed to write. In the old days I shinned up a ladder, got a book down, looked in the index – I can’t do that now. But the chance is that I won’t be able to get to the end of the Life [of Picasso], not because of my health or my eyes but because, well, I know too much. I know where the bodies are buried. I think I’ll stop in 1962, when Picasso and Jacqueline got married.”

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