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From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
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From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
A woman’s face fills the page, her features stretched like taffy—one eye huge, the other a sliver. Her hair fans out in jagged rays, as if she’s glowing. Picasso drew this in a single day, using a greasy crayon on stone. The print still shows the quick, raw lines he scratched in. It’s a love note to Françoise Gilot, his partner at the time, but you’d never guess that from the wild, almost angry marks. If you like how this feels, try looking up lithography.
