"The latest instalment of the finest artistic biography ever written" -- Waldemar Januszczak Sunday Times "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 "Unmissably good" -- Tim Martin 'Christmas Biography Choice' Daily Telegraph "Every page provides some insightful and fascinating information" -- William Boyd 'Books of the Year', Sunday Herald "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
