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Claude Picasso and
John Richardson

Winter 2018 Issue

In Conversation

Picasso biographer and family friend Sir John Richardson sits down with Claude Picasso for a wide-ranging conversation. The two discuss Claude’s photography, his enjoyment of vintage car racing, his encounters with Willem de Kooning, and the future of scholarship related to his father, Pablo Picasso.

Claude Picasso, New York, November 29, 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Born in 1947, Claude Ruiz-Picasso is the son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. After studying in France and Great Britain, he lived in New York from 1967 to 1974. He assisted photographer Richard Avedon and studied at the Actors Studio while working as a photojournalist. At the death of his father, Claude returned to France to take care of the Succession Picasso.

Sir John Richardson (1924–2019), son of Sir Wodehouse Richardson, was born in London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, then began writing for the New Statesman, Burlington Magazine, and other British journals. In 1950 he and the modern art collector and scholar Douglas Cooper moved to a château in the south of France, where Picasso was a frequent visitor. In 1980 Richardson began wri

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Claude Picasso

French filmmaker, designer and artist (1947–2023)

Claude Ruiz Picasso (15 May 1947 – 24 August 2023) was a French photographer, cinematographer, film director, visual artist, graphic designer, businessman, and the third child of the artist Pablo Picasso.

Biography

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Picasso was a child of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso^[1] and the older brother of Paloma Picasso. By a wish on Gilot's part, he was named after Claude Gillot (1673–1722), a pioneering French Rococo artist and mentor to fellow artist Jean-Antoine Watteau.^[2] His name was Claude Gilot until age 12.^[3] In 1968 he met Sara Lavner (Schultz), a young woman from Brooklyn. Lavner and Picasso married in 1969 and divorced in 1972.^[4] He was a photographer in New York City when his father died. At the time, he had experienced a period of estrangement from his father due to his mother's 1964 memoir Life with Picasso. His father's legacy was important to him, and he established the Picasso Administration^[5] to look after copyright and other legal matters.

Picasso lived in New York from 1967 to 1974. He was Richard Avedon's photographic assistant for almost a year, and studied cinema and mise-en-scène at the Actors Studio. He also worked as

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In Memoriam: Claude Picasso (1947 - 2023)

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‘I glare at say delay he [Picasso] was a good pop and a fantastic artist’

- Claude Picasso