A painting that is heralded by some as the third great Picasso masterpiece alongside "Demoiselles.." and "Guernica" may finally be part of an exhibit that the rest of the world can see. The painting, which was bought and stored by the Shah of Iran in the 70s, which few people have seen and many people are unaware even exists, could go on exhibit with many other great modern masters owned by the Shah. I for one am excited. It's a piece the below author calls, "the missing link" between the artist's two great, but very different, masterpieces.
Looking at the piece, it is visibly different than both pieces previously mentioned. It lacks the obvious ugliness and honesty of Demoiselles, and the immense dispair and horror of Geurnica. However, it still hits you with a smack of desolation. The artist and model are horribly disfigured, the artist barely distinguishable from the floor or wall behind him, and they are further broken by the fractured light. We are not seeing a clear collaboration between artist and model, but a struggle to display the beauty and life of human creation. While Demoiselles may be a comment on the everyday life of being artist in 1900s paris, and Geurnica displays the humanity destroyed by an inhumane act, "Painter and Model" comments on art itself, showing the struggle of artist and model, toiling to create beauty when none is felt. All I can hope is that we can view the piece soon, and decide for ourselves where in the great Picasso history book this painting belongs.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703310104576134692018112756.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4
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