A Life of Picasso Volume III

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