He retired at age 89 but continued making easel paintings of clowns. ”He was considered the Picasso of the circus world,” Eunice Nesselroth, a friend, said. ”He could sit down and finish off ...

during which he lived in relative poverty amongst alcoholics and circus performers. Picasso: Printmaker’s second section “Between the Wars” includes the Vollard Suite, a set of 100 etchings ...

If you want to think about how Picasso connects with Calder, two words matter a lot: the circus. A great early painting of Picasso’s, “The Family of Saltimbanques” (1905), is a dreamlike ...

such as the circus, bullfighting, and his personal relationships," Daunt notes. In 1968, at the age of 86, Picasso astonishingly created 347 prints in less than seven months. In 2014, the British ...

Picasso died on April 8 ... The Rose Period contained a rosy palette of oranges and pinks and often included circus imagery. The African-influenced Period heavily referenced traditional African ...

Picasso’s first word ... Equally striking are his circus scenes, in which we can include one of the most subversive depictions ever of Salome’s dance, with fat, complacent Herod in Egyptian ...

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prepared to be outraged by the horrors of “modern art,” sighed with relief when Picasso’s great curtain for the ballet Parade rolled down portraying a delightful procession of circus folk.