Fernande with a Black Mantilla

from blog James' Coffee Blog, | ↗ original
I remember vividly when I first saw Picasso’s “Fernande with a Black Mantilla” painting. I was visiting the Guggenheim museum in New York. The spiral dome was under maintenance in preparation for a new exhibit (although that did not stop me from peeking through the curtain to see the vastness of it as I walked up the spiral platform through the...