Joanna Pitman was Tokyo correspondent for the Times (London) from 1990 to 1994. She is now the photography critic for The Times. She is the author of a previous book, On Blondes. She lives in London with her family.
"""An enthralling piece of detective work...a pithy and chilling insight into the mind of this precocious artist."" -- The Times (UK) ""An extraordinary journey through history . . . Pitman also shows paintings have strange histories, the struggle to acquire them often being more fascinating than the stories they depict."" -- The Mail on Sunday (UK) ""Art history for the general reader comes no more stylishly packaged than this. Pitman pursues historical truth, yet makes it read as a thriller."" -- Country Life (UK) ""Read it you must: it is an exhilarating documentation of a remarkable painting."" -- The Art Newspaper (UK)"