![]() Happily his principal collaborator Marilyn McCully is still young and will doubtless conclude the task. If I were a betting man I'd reckon on a volume five being likely. The author is already 83 and, while one wishes him a long life, it's difficult to know when volume four will appear and even whether it will be the last. ![]() Richardson's first volume appeared in 1990, the second in 1997 and this, the third of a projected four has taken a further 10 years. Richardson, like the others, is English and bears out the view that Britons outstrip Europeans in general and the French in particular when it comes to tackling the life and works of the school of genius. ![]() John Richardson's monumental life of Picasso dwarfs in length – and, possibly, time spent in composing it – such biographical classics as George Painter's Proust, David Cairns's Berlioz and Hilary Spurling's Matisse. ![]()
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