Pablo Picasso, The Painter and his Model, 3/ 8 April 1963, Oil on canvas, 130 x 195 cm. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Zervos XXIII, 202. © Succession Picasso/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.-Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents Picasso – Painting Against Time, on view through June 10, 2007. Virtually no other artist received as much public attention as Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), whose epochal oeuvre continues to challenge and provoke. This exhibition focuses on the fulminant, overabundant late works of this artist, who retreated to Mougins in 1961 with Jacqueline Roque, his last companion and wife. There, he created paintings whose painterly execution is characterized by gestural violence and accelerating speed, and whose explicit eroticism and apparent formlessness initially encountered vehement critical rejection. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20251