Series 1
Series Summary
For the maestro Picasso, the creative act was bound up with magic, sex, and death. In this astonishing life of Picasso, John Richardson, biographer and close personal friend, is the first to examine the unique significance of these three major themes, and the extent to which they dominated the artist's life, as well as his art.
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Episodes (3)
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Richardson investigates the mystical and the occult in Picasso's work, from his childhood in Spain to the end of his Cubist period. Drawing…
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In the second of this revelatory three part series, John Richardson, Picasso scholar and close personal friend of the artist, examines…
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In this final programme, John Richardson uses the later part of Picasso's career to focus on what death meant to him. Again Richardson…
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