Artist

Pablo Picasso

Nationality

Spanish

Artist Dates

1881-1973

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Date of Work

1971

Medium

Spit-bite aquatint

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection

Status

Displayed

Location

University House

Additional Information

Picasso experimented with a wide range of styles during his long career. This print, completed when he was nearly ninety years old, hearkens back to the cubist style he pioneered in the early twentieth century. The fractured and distorted faces evoke the African masks that had influenced his rejection of Western standards of beauty in favor of a radical, uninhibited mode of expression.

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