he wrote in the preface to Picasso and Dora. "They are right." [James] Lord became (in the words of Thornton Wilder, who met him over tea at the home of Alice B Toklas) "a sort of less vivacious Boswell" as he diligently cultivated Picasso, André Gide, Jean Cocteau and other figures of the postwar French literary and artistic elite.
He also wrote several important works about the Swiss artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, notably his definitive Giacometti: A Biography (1986).
from Telegraph: James Lord
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