SOURCE: "Tough Guys Don't Paint," in The New York Times Book Review, October 15, 1995, p. 16.
In the following review, Kimmelman provides a generally unfavorable assessment of Portrait of Picasso, citing incidents of unsubstantiated speculation and Mailer's failure to break new ground on the subject of the celebrated artist.
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