I met Pablo Picasso in May, 1943 ... I saw a small matchbox on which he had painted the head of a woman in a post-Cubist manner. I asked him when he had done that. "Oh, two or three years ago ...

Alamy Woman with Pears, 1909, is a portrait of Picasso's first love, Fernande Olivier, in the Cubist style The critic questions whether Picasso is looking at his wife and sympathising with her ...

Picasso's most expensive painting to sell at auction was Les Femmes d'Alger (Women of Algiers), which ... most notably inspiring "Cubism", which shows objects or people from many angles at the ...