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In the year 1907 Picasso was only twentyfive. Yet despite his youth he already had behind him a considerable body of artistic achievcment-more than two hundred paintings, several thousand drawings, numerous gouaches, pastels, water-colours and engravings, and a few sculptures. Up till then his work...

It may seem surprising that a painter of 'musical' compositions in which an emotional response is provoked by the contrast or harmony of pure, intense colours, should be so interested in the human face. After all, a face reflects thoughts, feelings, a soul. How can such things be portrayed by...

The faces of a few women he loved or admired —Suzanne Valadon, Jane Avril, May Milton, Missia Natanson—somé models he had met briefly, the inmates of the brothels in the Rue des Moulins whom he had got to know so intimately during his long stays, and lastly, a few silhouettes snatched from...