Alex Danchev, who died as he was finishing this biography, was the author of Georges Braque and Cezanne: A Life, as well as a new translation of The Letters of Paul Cezanne. He was a professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where his archive resides.Sarah Whitfield is an art historian. She is the coeditor of René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, and she serves on the René Magritte authentication committee.

Diligent and insightful ... Danchev proved an indefatigable researcher, and Sarah Whitfield does full justice to his labours

Alex Danchev, who died as he was finishing this biography, was the author of Georges Braque and Cezanne: A Life, as well as a new translation of The Letters of Paul Cezanne. He was a professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where his archive resides.Sarah Whitfield is an art historian. She is the coeditor of René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, and she serves on the René Magritte authentication committee.

Diligent and insightful ... Danchev proved an indefatigable researcher, and Sarah Whitfield does full justice to his labours