AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF EUROPE 
by William M. Brinton 

Pablo Picasso

Yo Picasso (Paris, Spring 1901)
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas (73.5 x 60.5 cm)
Private collection, Zervos XXI, 192
Mark Harden's Artchive
http://artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso.html

Self-Portraits

Picasso's self-portraits are so important in his work that they deserve their own category. This section of paintings spans his entire career, although for most of the post-Cubist work, his identity in his paintings was symbolized by "The Painter," or the "Minotaur" rather than a literal representation of himself. Picasso's manner of self-depiction changed, of course, to match with his current style of painting, so it is interesting to compare the self-portraits from, for instance, the Blue Period to those done when he was working in a Cubist mode only a few years later.

From: Mark Harden's Artchive
http://artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso.html

Picasso's Guernica, 1937

Guernica (Paris, 1 May to 4 June 1937)
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas (349.3 x 776.6 cm)
Zervos IX, 65, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
©1999 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Mark Harden's Artchive
http://artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso.html

Online Picasso Project
Two preliminary sketches and 4 photos of various stages of the painting.
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/works/w37.html

Picasso's Secret Guernica, Mark Harris 1996
http://www.cix.co.uk/~phreak/picasso/secret_guernica.html
http://web.org.uk/picasso/guernica.html

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