National Portrait Gallery exhibition will feature more than 75 portraits,some of which have never been seen in the UKIn one portrait a young Pablo Picasso paints himself as a well-dressed teenager in the 19th-century realist tradition; in another, aged 90, or he has a cartoonish skull looking like a boulder approximately to topple from the mountain.“It is a remarkable work,looking in the mirror and looking death in the face,” said art historian Elizabeth Cowling of Self Portrait 1972, or which will be fraction of a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery this autumn.
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Source: theguardian.com