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May 2006 Issue William Packer Star-Struck Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose By Elizabeth Cowling LR
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December 2011 Issue Michael Peppiatt All About Vincent Van Gogh: The Life By Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith LR
May 2013 Issue Kevin Jackson We Need to Talk about Pablo Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica By T J Clark LR
December 2013 Issue Frances Spalding Upsetting the Apple Cart The Letters of Paul Cézanne By Alex Danchev (editor & translator) LR
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