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This week we're bringing you the stories of some of the most famous artists and exhibitions of the 20th century.

We're starting with one of the greatest figures of them all, Pablo Picasso.

In the 1950s, a young art historian called John Richardson met Picasso for the first time.

Richardson would spend most of the rest of his life working on the definitive biography of the Spanish artist.

Laura Schita spoke to him in 2011.

It's 1951 and John Richardson has gone to France to seek out the greatest living painter in the world.

I used to watch Picasso.

If there was sort of eight or so of you having lunch or dinner in the studio,

you'd watch Picasso sort of getting each person, getting their energy and he'd, these great big

eyes would just study one person after the other and you could sort of feel him, I mean like a vampire absorbing their energy.

And then after the dinner he would go off into the studio and work all night on other people's energy.

John Richardson became a friend of Picasso's and for the next decade he was a regular

visitor to his home and studio.

The Spanish artist was then in his 70s and a huge celebrity.

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