PICASSO PABLO

One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others:Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, hedisplayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kepthim one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter MaxErnst, ruefully put it: "No one can touch Picasso. He is geniusincarnate." The works selected here cover Picasso's entire output, fromthe less familiar to key masterpieces such as "Guernica", from the Blueand Rose Periods early in his career through his cubist and classicistphases and the formal experiments of the Thirties to his later involvementwith politics in art.