PICASSO PORTRAITS

From first to last, Picassos prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. By 1900 Picasso was p roducing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles symbolist, cubist, neoclassical, surrealist, expressionist. But however extreme his departure from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned dr...[Read more]