“Every word is for John,” said Rosamond Bernier, referring to her late husband, the English-born art critic Sir John Russell, and her new book Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir (Farrar, Straus and ...

Some of My Lives is a lively chronicle of postwar Paris and the author's celebrated circle, a movable feast that included Pablo Picasso, Henri... The Charmed, Charming Life Of Rosamond Bernier In 1947 ...

An undiscovered collection of Picasso paintings is big news in the art world. Last year a solid tip that such a collection did exist was given to pretty, U.S.-born Rosamond Bernier, onetime Paris ...

Disgrace -- Some musicians I have known -- Stokowski -- Aaron Copland -- Leonard Bernstein -- Early Mexican moments -- Some animals I have known -- Up, up, and away -- Under the volcano (pace Malcolm ...

Matisse was the mystery man of modern art-a private, stiff petit bourgeois who, as it happened, painted the most luscious masterpieces of the century. One person who got a rare look at the reserved ...

Rosamond Bernier lecturing about Henry Moore at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972. Thumbnail photo (with husband, John Russell) Jill Krementz; all rights ...

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In 1947, Vogue magazine sent Rosamond Bernier to Paris to cover European cultural life as it recovered after World War II. She met everyone who was anybody — Pablo Picasso befriended her, Henri ...

Rosamund Bernier is the author of Matisse, Picasso, Miro — As I Knew Them. A longtime contributing editor to Vogue, she was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1999. In 1947, Vogue magazine ...