Lasker Awards and papal portraiture: turning fields upside down.

摘要

Picasso has been quoted as saying "my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become a Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and I became Picasso." And, indeed, Picasso did become a Picasso. His oeuvre was extraordinary in its creativity and quantity: he produced more than 50,000 works of art, including 2,000 paintings, 1,300 sculptures, 30,000 prints and 8,000 drawings, not to mention thousands of ceramics and hundreds of tapestries and rugs.