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Dazzling and sex-fuelled: Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy reviewed

Pablo Picasso's 4.8-metre collage 'Women at Their Toilette' (1937–38). [Image: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Adrien Didierjean © Succession Picasso/DACS 2019]

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

Picasso and Paper

Royal Academy, until 13 April

Picasso collected papers. Not just sheets of the exotic handmade stuff — though he admitted being seduced by them —…

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