Picasso Portraits

Depicting people in his intimate circle rather than working to commission enabled Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) to take an expressive, radically experimental approach to making portraits . Co - published with the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, t his book examines the contrasting modes of his portraiture ( from formal, posed portrait s to witty caricature's ), his sources of inspiration and the complex motivation behind his defiance of representation al norms.