In this, the third installment of John Richardson’s epic biography of Picasso, we find that the artist, age 36, having been spurned by two mistresses to whom he’d proposed marriage, has fled wartime ...

Much of “Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man” is a shameless, cut-and- paste job. Norman Mailer has mixed reams of copy from other writers into his own pungent prose in this idiosyncratic yet ...