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![]() ![]() With three more volumes still to come, the most momentous artistic achievements of Picasso’s long and tumultuous career remain, of course, to be charted by Mr. It is certainly one of the most absorbing books about an artist of any period that I have read-one of the most troubling, too -and the completed work is likely to stand as a landmark in the historiography of modern art. The first thing to be said about this book is that it is at once a triumph of the biographer’s art and one of the most illuminating studies yet written about a major figure of the modern movement. ![]() With the publication of the first volume of John Richardson’s new biography of Picasso, we now have the most complete account of the artist’s early years we are likely to be given for the foreseeable future. The strong should go ahead and take what they want. Portrait photograph of Pablo Picasso, 1908. ![]()
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