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Pablo's Masterpieces at The Art Gallery of Ontario

By Stephen A. Nelson

TORONTO — “I paint the way some people write an autobiography,” Pablo Picasso once said. “The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.”

If that's true, then the Picasso exhibition now on at the Art Gallery of Ontario  (Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris) is the artist's life  story writ large. All of the chapters are here, everything from the A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man to Picasso's Last Words.

The exhibition at the AGO has been described as "Picasso's Picasso" and as “the greatest display of Picassos in the world.”

"I Am The Good Shepherd..."

Picasso's sculpture now on display at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) in Toronto.

It's officially called Man With A Lamb.

But nearly everyone calls it The Good Shepherd, recalling Jesus' saying, "I am the good shepherd...  the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
Which just happened to be the Gospel lesson this week.

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God is really only another artist ... He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Picasso

Photo by Stephen A. Nelson

Picasso's Last Words I: Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar from Picasso Exhibit now on at Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto.

photo by Stephen A. Nelson