- Published: 1 February 2009
- ISBN: 9781845951290
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 608
- RRP: $100.00
A Life Of Picasso Volume III
The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
- Published: 1 February 2009
- ISBN: 9781845951290
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 608
- RRP: $100.00
Every page provides some insightful and fascinating information
William Boyd, 'Books of the Year', Sunday Herald
Unmissably good
Tim Martin, 'Christmas Biography Choice' Daily Telegraph
No man is better qualified to write the biography of Picasso...he writes with such fluency, simplicity and clarity that his knowledge and illuminating wisdom are very lightly borne... A marvellous book
Brian Sewell, Evening Standard
The most striking aspect of this surefooted account is the link that Richardson shows between the women in Picasso's life and the direction of his art
New Statesman
I love this tumultuous, mercurial, idiosyncratic cavalcade of a book... It is a book that manages to be simultaneously individual and authoritative, and makes one impatient for the next volume
Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
Out of the detail the man Picasso emerges, as startling as a character in any good novel...it is glorious to read the story of an artist which does not make the sins count for more than the paintings, does not forget the life while theorising the paintings to dust. Richardson is writing the life of Picasso without ever forgetting the point of him
Michael Pye, Scotsman
A monumental life of Picasso
Independent on Sunday
The latest instalment of the finest artistic biography ever written
Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times
Richardson's argument, cogent, witty and persuasive, backed up by prodigious research and sumptuous illustrations, makes this herculean biography increasingly harsh, tough and uncomfortable to read
Observer
Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific company. This volume joins its predecessors as unrivalled among artists' biographies
Financial Times
Richardson, a magisterial writer, brilliant critic and deliriously funny raconteur, is a unique, dazzling match for his subject
Financial Times
A colossal undertaking that has taken almost his whole life and will enrich yours forever
The Spectator