A masterpiece’ Sunday Times’Magisterial… thrilling’ Guardian’Terrifically enjoyable’ Daily TelegraphThe 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 Brassai to Picasso’s chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Picasso’s lover Marie-Therese Walter. Picasso was contributing to Andre Breton’s Minotaur magazine and spending time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Eluard, 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 Minotaur. Richardson shows us the artist being as prolific as ever, paintin