Founders Notes

Poignantly, on a tour of a primary school an ageing Picasso once said, “At their age, I knew how to paint like Titian. It’s taken me a lifetime to remember a greater achievement: how to paint like a child.” What he meant was that it had taken him decades to shake off a compliant urge to paint “well” and “respectably” and to listen instead more clos

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One need only look at Picasso’s notebooks to recognize the staggering amount of work that went into “Les Demoiselles.” He carried out 809 preliminary studies and filled 16 different sketchbooks with his attempts to represent the women. It was with this painting that he introduced the world to what would become known as cubism.8