Craig Raine

Pablo Picasso in love and war

Volume IV of John Richardson’s Life sees the middle-aged Picasso more preoccupied with his mistresses than with Europe in turmoil

Picasso in his Paris studio in the early 1930s. [Getty Images]

  • A Life of Picasso, Volume IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933-43

    John Richardson

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 320, £35

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