Picasso on EPPH
At the small but excellent Museu Picasso in Barcelona, a repository for much of Picasso's early work and the complete series of paintings on Las Meninas, they sell a pencil (above). Draw your own conclusions. No comment.
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Reader Comments
What a validation!
Donna
27 Feb 2015
Hah! Right what confirming artifact/moment. I love it. Great museum, too. Loved our visit years ago. Hope to go back. If for whatever reasons not, the insight “The painter always paints himself” can be applied in many ways and in vast mediums, I think.
Adam Brown
28 May 2016