As ever, his love life was complex, his treatment of women “unforgivably callous”. “The years under consideration are some of the most tumultuous in Picasso’s long and twisty life,” said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. This volume is as “clever, amusing, flamboyant” as ever. Despite being written in testing circumstances – Richardson’s eyesight was failing – there isn’t the slightest “let-up” in quality. And so this final instalment breaks off in 1943, with Picasso aged 61 – and destined to “live, paint and love for another 30 years”. Richardson wasn’t even midway through the fourth when he died, aged 95, in 2019. The first three volumes of Richardson’s “monumental biography”, covered Picasso’s life till the age of 50. What Do Men Want? – a ‘provocative and rigorous’ book.Book review: French Braid by Anne Tyler.
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