Pablo
Picasso, there’s only one way around him and that’s straight ahead. Take this
folio, handed randomly to a visiting Australian last July by a great-niece. Was
he bonkers? A superlative drawing starts as simple outlines one side, turns
into ornate effusions of roofing and foliage the other: Como House. Washes of
varying quality approximate Blue Dandenongs. Human figures are always close to
hand with Picasso. Lithographs of sporty Greeks become more disjointed as afternoon
wears on. Sometimes they throw off their clothes or turn into a bull. Spain
boycotted the Melbourne Olympics, which dates this folio to within days.
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