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“The Minotaur Years” covers 1933-43, when the Spanish artist was in his 50s and confronting the spread of fascism and Nazi Germany in Europe. It wasn’t only facts, because facts can be kind of boring. “He had a much larger, wider picture (than other biographers) of what everyone was doing. He noted that Richardson benefited from knowing not just the artist but Jean Cocteau and other friends and peers. “I think his are the most important of the Picasso biographies,” says Picasso’s grandson, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, co-president of the art foundation FABA, which includes some of his grandfather’s works. Each was praised in every way a biographer could ask for - for his prose and for his knowledge, for his singular appreciation of Picasso’s achievements and, despite a personal friendship with Picasso and family members, for his willingness to document the artist’s most troubling flaws. Each volume took years to complete - “The Triumphant Years” came out in 2007. Like Robert Caro’s Lyndon Johnson series, Richardson’s books have been a story of testing and rewarding the patience of readers and critics. ALSO READ | ‘No two readers are the same’: Anita Nair on being a female author in India and her approach to writing

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