Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Dora Maar, 1941, Pencil, 31.2 x 23.8 cm. Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2007

EDINBURGH.-The NGS are staging a major exhibition of Picasso's prints and drawings. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is widely regarded as the greatest artist of the twentieth century, indeed as one of the greatest artists of all times. Born in Málaga in Spain, he was a child prodigy, quickly eclipsing the work of his father, who was a professional art teacher. He moved to Paris in the early 1900s and remained based in France thereafter. His influence extends over every aspect of the visual arts: no other artist had such a profound impact on the art of his time. Besides his work as a painter and a sculptor, he was also an extraordinary graphic artist, making drawings, etchings, lithographs, linocuts and woodcuts over a period of more than seventy years. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21123

Pablo Picasso, La Minotauromachia, 1935, Etching and Engraving. © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge