Emails to Richardson's New York publisher, and editor Shelly Wagner, and personal secretary, interview notes, story drafts, research notes., 2011

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Notes from Janet Hawley: British Author and arts writer who lives in New York, Picasso's biographer. I interviewed John Richardson in new York, around the same time I interviewed Francoise Gilot ( Picasso's former de facto wife) in new York. Both interviews were "world scoops" to secure, as both Richardson and Gilot are very elderly, reclusive, and rarely grant interviews. It was a long process of persuasion to be able to interview both Richardson, and Gilot, involving may letters, emails, phone calls. I finally interviewed Richardson in his New York apartment over several days in 2011, also visited New York art galleries with him, where he'd curated a Picasso show. Richardson knew Picasso in France, and has been writing his series of multi-volume biographies on Picasso for decades now. He was working on the final volume when I interviewed him.

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