Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Confessions of a Child of the Century
By John Russell
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper
by John Richardson
Knopf, 318 pp., $26.95
As an autobiographer, John Richardson has a great deal going for him. He has been in and around the international art world for many years. He can tell a story as well as anyone in town. If he has ever spent time with a bore, we don't hear about it. In his fields of particular interest, which are nothing if not varied, he has been 'everywhere' and known 'everyone.' In person, he can summon up the look of a 'most potent, grave and reverend signior,' only 'to discard it in a flash when laughter looms.' Though currently best known for his ongoing and monumental life of Pablo Picasso, he has perfect pitch for the human comedy and no inhibitions whatever about setting it down in its every detail.
Review, 4274 words
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