PABLO PICASSO/ GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR

Girl before a Mirror (1932), takes the traditional artistic theme of a woman before her mirror and reinvents it in radically modern terms. In her essay, MoMA's Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Anne Umland, explores this work in dept h and describes the circumstances of its creation: the artist's private life, his practice as a sculptor, his rivalry with other art ists both living and dead and his concern, at the age of 51, about his contemporary relevance and artistic legacy.