The most intimate facet of this giant of painting is finally unveiled... Picasso's art is innately erotic and shows us an artist who finds sexual desire to be an infinite source of inspiration. His early work displays a precocious interest in the female sex, whilst the older artist moves towards abstraction and its grotesque and dislocated vision of nudity. The exhibition focuses on his most erotic work in the form of the sketches, engravings and drawings he made in the slums of Barcelona. This work reveals desire, fear and sensuality intermixed with the subtlety and consistency that always accompanies the magical brilliance of all Picasso's work.
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