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2023-05-08 18:56:24
As a child, Pablo Picasso liked to cut silhouettes out of paper. He was already pointing ways. With only a saddle and the handlebars of a bicycle, he would give life to a bull’s head years later. In 1902, in the Barcelona studio of his friend, the sculptor Emili Fontbona, he made ‘Seated Woman’, his first known clay piece, and in 1909 he created ‘Woman’s Head (Fernande)’, a famous 3D Cubist ‘portrait’ of Fernande Olivier, molded in clay in Manolo Hugué’s studio in Paris. He cast it in bronze a year later. Picasso would make sculptures throughout his career. Most, for himself, not for display or sale. They were something very intimate and personal to him. He liked to be … See More
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