Lord, James

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Name (Latin)
Lord, James
Date of birth
1922-11-27
Date of death
2009-08-23
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Art historians
Biographers
Novelists
memoirist
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1922
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 46764228
Wikidata: Q1680720
Library of congress: n 80024614
Sources of Information
  • Getty Union list of artist names, via WWW, October 26, 2016(Lord, James (American art historian, 1922-2009, active in France))
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1922)
  • New York times WWW site, Aug. 28, 2009(in obituary published Aug. 27: James Lord; biographer and memoirist; b. in Englewood, N.J.; d. Sunday [Aug. 23, 2009], Paris, aged 86; intimate of Picasso and Giacometti whose biographies and memoirs provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse after World War II)
  • Wikipedia, October 26, 2016(James Lord (November 27, 1922-August 23, 2009) was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso; born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up there; died in Paris)
  • His No traveller returns, 1955.

Wikipedia description:

James Lord (November 27, 1922 – August 23, 2009) was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. He appeared in the documentary films Balthus Through the Looking Glass (1996) and Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (2001). Lord is also noted for being the subject of one of Giacometti's last portraits, an experience he documented in his 1965 memoir.

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