Picasso carried a revolver, kept a tame white mouse in a table drawer, couldn’t afford even the luxury of painting on his walls—as he had when a student in Spain—pictures of the furniture he ...
Getty Images Picasso stands in front of the portrait he created of his wife Olga Khokhlova But 50 years on from his death, is it possible to define Picasso as the beauty or the beast, just as he ...
However, new super-resolution X-ray scans of the artwork show how Picasso changed his mind and painted over his own work, too. One of the images Picasso covered up eventually became a new painting.
In fact, Pablo Picasso's Femmes à la toilette was the one of the main promotional press images for the show, which looks at the influence of African art on Picasso and the artist's subsequent ...