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Pablo Picasso  "Portrait of Frederic Joliot-Curie,"Lithograph, Signed and numbered 67 /200, by Pablo Picasso, Spanish, (1881-1973) One of the greatest art geniuses in modern times, Pablo Picasso was a child art prodigy. One of the co-founders of the Cubist art movement, the artist is also well known for his “continuous line drawings.” This lithograph portrait of his scientist friend Frederic Juliot-Curie shows Picasso’s ability to capture the essence of his subject with minimal lines. Frederic was the son-in-law of Madame Curie who discovered radium. He and her scientist daughter Irene shared the Nobel Prize in 1935. Look carefully at this work, and you may see the radioactive energy field that Picasso communicated in this portrayal of his friend. “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them (children). Pablo Picasso Works Held in the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. 2004 Gift to the Museum from Mr. Fitzhugh Lee Fowke III Previous • Back to List • Next |