<p><b>''A masterpiece'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Magisterial... thrilling'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''Terrifically enjoyable'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b><br>The beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson''s magisterial <i>Life of Picasso</i>, drawing on original research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives. </b><br><br><i>The Minotaur Years </i>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 <i>Minotaur </i>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