Picasso remains arguably the most dominant figure in art 50 years after his death. (Photo: AFP)
PARIS: Why can’t the world get enough of Pablo Picasso? On the 50th anniversary of his death, it seems the appetite for the Spanish master is inexhaustible.
Picasso’s ceramics, Picasso’s sculptures, Picasso and feminism, Picasso’s use of white, celebrity photographs of Picasso … the list of exhibitions marking the half-century since his death on April 8, 1973 runs on and on.
“Picasso gobbles everything up, and still we are hungry for more,” grandson Olivier Widmaier-Picasso told AFP, adding that he was “fascinated by the number of curators, historians and researchers that continue to find new angles to…
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