In the second of this revelatory three part series, John Richardson, Picasso scholar and close personal friend of the artist, examines Picasso's highly complex attitudes towards sexuality, as seen through his art.
For Picasso, sexuality had a far deeper meaning than who was sleeping with whom - it informed his whole psyche and shaped his art immeasurably. Just as, in Mary Ann Caws' words, the Surrealists (many of whom were close personal friends of Picasso) `celebrated mad, impassioned love, so sex was a way to impassion the universe'.
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