| Claude Picasso, New York, November 29, 1967, photographed by Richard Avedon |
IN CONVERSATION
CLAUDE PICASSO ANDJOHN RICHARDSON
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.
John Richardson
Winter 2018
JOHN RICHARDSON So, what brings you to New York?
CLAUDE PICASSO Well, tomorrow is my birthday and I thought I’d spend it with [my mother] Françoise [Gilot]. It’s amusing because we’re exactly twenty-five years apart, so it’s easy to remember: When I turned twenty-five, she turned fifty. When she turned seventy-five, I was fifty. This week she said, “And what are you going to be? Oh, seventy-two? So it means I’ll be a hundred” [laughter]. I said, “Not yet.”