03-10-2016 23:00 via theartnewspaper.com

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Picasso Portraits
6 October-5 February 2017National Portrait Gallery   When Pablo Picasso unveiled Les Demoiselles dAvignon in his Paris studio in 1907, the painting was greeted by bafflement, anger and even laughter from friends and critics. The writer Flix Fnon advised the 25-year-old artist to take up caricature. If the comparison rankled at the time, Picasso later conceded the point, declaring: All good portraits are in some degree caricatures. Caricature is a thread that runs thr
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