Elizabeth Cowling Author

John Richardson is the author of a multivolume biography on the life of Picasso; the fourth and final volume is forthcoming. His memoir The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was published in 1999, followed by a collection of essays and reviews, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, in 2001. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. Diana Widmaier Picasso is an art historian who has written widely on Picasso’s work. She is the granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Therese Walter. Elizabeth Cowling is professor emeritus of history of art at Edinburgh University, a curator of Picasso Looks at Degas (2010) and Picasso: Sculptor/Painter (1994), a contributor of numerous catalogue essays on Picasso, and the author of Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose (2006) as well as the seminal Picasso: Style and Meaning (2002).