Sir,-I should like to thank John Pine Snadden for his letter. I am very happy to find that there is one person who knows his Picasso intimately, not just a scoffer who has glanced at reproductions, mostly of the artist’s latter period. Most people I discuss Picasso with have never seen his portraits executed during his classical period from about 1918 to 1925. With such economy of line he conveys the most ethereal portraits, and when suddenly confronted with them in an aft gallery one stops dead in one’s tracks, entranced by the feeling, the colour and passion of this giant of the brush. Even if we do not like the lady with a geranium pot sticking out of her chin, let us look further afield at his numerous other pieces and not just condemn the man for one or two pictures that we do not happen to find beautiful or inspiring.
SUSI R.
COLLINS
Auckland ) =
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 7
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