As Picasso worked, he simplified, reducing the faces to crude masks, the bodies to fragmented fetishes, imbuing the canvas with a power both primitive and unimaginably new. None of this came ...

In Woolworths, he came upon a set of masks whose features suggested a marriage of Picasso and a jack-o’-lantern. “He immediately liked their properties,” recalls his son Christopher ...

The exhibition "Picasso. The Language of Ideas" displayed from May 10 to September 28 at the Basilica of Santa Maria alla ...