''A masterpiece'' Sunday Times
''Magisterial... thrilling'' Guardian
''Terrifically enjoyable'' Daily Telegraph
The beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson''s magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives.
The Minotaur Years opens in 1933 with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassa-o Picasso''s ch-au in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Picasso''s lover Marie-Th-se Walter. Picasso was contributing to Andr-reton''s Minotaur magazine and spending time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dal-Lee Miller, and the poet Paul -uard, in Paris and the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minot
