Poetic Obituaries: [Lydia Gasman's] groundbreaking Ph.D. dissertation,

Mystery, Magic, and Love in Picasso: Picasso and the Surrealist Poets, 1925-1938 was an enormous four volume work which revolutionized the study of Picasso and was reverentially reviewed in The New York Review of Books by the Picasso biographer, John Richardson. Her dissertation in countless ways became the foundation for the study of Picasso up until the present time. Between 1968 until 1972, Professor Gasman taught art history at Vassar College and between 1972 until 1975 at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 1981, she joined the art history faculty at the University of Virginia until her retirement in 2001.

from Daily Progress: Lydia Gasman
also The New York Times: Lydia Csato Gasman, Picasso Scholar, Dies at 84

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