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Marie Therese would become his lover and a compulsive obsession in his art. . . . . . .

In 1932, he poses Marie Therese in a languid reverie. . . . . . .

Gently masturbating, she's literally got sex on her mind. . . . . . .

Pictures like this do what they show, stroking us into a playful trance. The colour and wit of the thing, a drowsy, sensual entertainment.

It's the provocative work of a cocky, self-obsessed, self-indulgent genius. And it's all a long way from Guernica.

. . . . . . Picasso had arrived in Paris at the turn of the century, a small, pugnacious and frighteningly gifted Andalusian.

In the city of the avantgarde, wherever you looked all the rules of poetry, music, painting, were being junked. Young Picasso living like a bohemian with his oil-slick hair, huge black eyes and big rabbit's nose.

He knew he had to be part of the giddy liberty. . . . . . .

And he knew what he didn't want, the hoary old pantomimes of the mighty. Modern art was modern because it had turned its back on those grandstanding histories, painted for aristocrats and kings.

Here's power on a horse, the omnipotence of the ruler displayed by nonchalant control, Just one hand on the reins. The message was, if the sovereign can handle the great horse, he can certainly manage affairs of state, critical matters of war and peace.

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