Picasso: Portraits

Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 October 2016 - 5 February 2017

Depicting people in his intimate circle rather than working to commission enabled Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) to take an expressive, radically experimental approach to making portraits.

This exhibition catalogue examines the contrasting modes of the artist's portraiture (from formal, posed portraits to witty caricatures), his sources of inspiration and the complex motivation behind his defiance of representational norms.