The teen-aged Pablo Picasso, finding the teaching…
1898 CE
He writes: "The Museum of paintings is beautiful. Velázquez first class; from El Greco some magnificent heads, Murillo does not convince me in every one of his pictures." (Works by these and other artists will capture Picasso's imagination at different times during his long career.
Goya, for instance, is an artist whose works Picasso copies in the Prado in 1898: a portrait of the bullfighter Pepe Illo and the drawing for one of the Caprichos, Bien tirada está, which shows a Celestina [procuress] checking a young maja's stockings.
These same will characters reappear in his late work—Pepe Illo in a series of engravings (1957) and Celestina as a kind of voyeuristic self-portrait, especially in the series of etchings and engravings known as "Suite 347" (1968).)
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Francisoc Goya: Bien Tirada está (1798-1799); Museo del Prada
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