April 2022 Issue Frances Spalding Bull with a Paintbrush A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943 By John Richardson
December 1999 Issue Lynn Barber Out of the Snake Pit The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper By John Richardson LR
July 1988 Issue Richard Dorment A Monster Who Used Women Picasso: Creator and Destroyer By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington LR
August 2014 Issue Alex Danchev Band of Bohemians In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910 By Sue Roe LR
December 2007 Issue John McEwen I am God, I am God A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully) LR
May 2013 Issue Kevin Jackson We Need to Talk about Pablo Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica By T J Clark LR
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