Life of Picasso, vol.2

1907-1917: the painter of modern life "John Richardson´s second volume on Picasso confirms what his first suggested: that this is a masterpiece in the making, the most illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth century visual artist and the only one that can sustain comparisonwith Painter on Proust, Ellmann on Joyce or Edel on Henry James. Nobody has ever mined the facts of Picasso´s life as deeply as Richardson or related them so cogently to his work. And the cant-free crispness of its writing -let alone Richardson´s irrepressible eye for the offbeat of scandalous detail- makes it a continuous pleasure to read." Robert Hughes