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• Winner of Whitbread Book of the Year 1991

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""Sheer brilliance ... the entire volume abounds in vivid historical writing and shrewdly drawn sketches of the key actors ... It is a story to which John Richardson has brought the requisite combination of literary skill, aesthetic sensibility, moral candor and scholarly industry. It will stand as a challenge to future biographers for many years to come."" —The Washington Post ""A remarkable achievement on more than one count ... The record is set straight without bias."" —The New York Times Book Review

"""Sheer brilliance ... the entire volume abounds in vivid historical writing and shrewdly drawn sketches of the key actors ... It is a story to which John Richardson has brought the requisite combination of literary skill, aesthetic sensibility, moral candor and scholarly industry. It will stand as a challenge to future biographers for many years to come."" —The Washington Post ""A remarkable achievement on more than one count ... The record is set straight without bias."" —The New York Times Book Review"

Sheer brilliance ... the entire volume abounds in vivid historical writing and shrewdly drawn sketches of the key actors ... It is a story to which John Richardson has brought the requisite combination of literary skill, aesthetic sensibility, moral candor and scholarly industry. It will stand as a challenge to future biographers for many years to come. -The Washington Post A remarkable achievement on more than one count ... The record is set straight without bias. -The New York Times Book Review

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John Richardson is the author of a memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; an essay collection, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters; and books on Manet and Braque. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He was instrumental in setting up Christie’s in the United States. In 1993 he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 1995–96 he served as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. He divides his time between Connecticut and New York City.

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