Word: showoffmanship
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...even more astonishing feat of showoffmanship is the 15 exhibited variations of Eugene Delacroix's famed Louvre painting, Women of Algiers, turned out by Picasso over a 15-month period. Noted a friend: "It was with a kind of malicious pleasure that he took up this venerable museum work, turned it over like an old coat, recut it and adjusted it to his own measurements." Painted in 1954-55, the exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot...
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