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By Lev Grossman
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917 - 1932
By John Richardson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
608 pages
$40.00
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#2. Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
by John Richardson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
608 pages
$40.00

This third installment of a majestic multi-volume biography finds Picasso in transition from his Bohemian youth to wealth, fame and marriage, and then to a romance with a very young mistress. As always Richardson is tart, judgmental, thoroughly knowledgeable and very readable.

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