The Times of London Art Book of the Year 2021

“Vivid descriptions, enlivening anecdotes and revelatory detail … enrich this riveting narrative.… [T]his portrait of an iconoclast who found glory in squalor and snatched a sense of grandeur from life’s banality must surely count as definitive.”

Rachel Campbell-Johnston and Michael Prodger, “16 best art books 2021,” The Times, November 27, 2021.