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...tracing the statue's forebears back to a 1962 metal cutout titled Head of a Woman, currently on exhibition at London's Tate Gallery. But as far back as 1907, when Picasso was inspired by African masks, he painted a figure in the famed Demoiselles d'Avignon bearing an uncanny resemblance to the new sculpture. Chicago's Picasso is also a realization of an old dream. In 1929, commenting on some gigantic monuments he had conceived for the Mediterranean shore, Picasso said: "I have to paint them because no one is ready to commission one from...
...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
...cubist paintings, making it the first time-and probably the last-that the complete series of great cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that heralded the beginning of cubism. Only outstanding omission: the Modern's 1937 Guernica, which the museum considered "too fragile to travel...
Meanwhile, back in Avignon, it was life as usual at the Mathieu house...
Sunny Side. Like Piaf, Mireille comes from humble origins. Daughter of an Avignon stonecutter, she is the eldest of 13 children. When her big break came last year, she was employed as a factory worker operating an envelope-folding machine for $15 a week...