Picasso’s bull lands with a thud in the new world. All its pleasure torn with rough strife through the iron gates of life is one more object that clings to its glory days in a crowded room.
Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift:
Humboldt wanted to drape the world with radiance, but he didn’t have enough material. His attempt ended at the belly. Below hung the shaggy nudity we know so well.
Grant Barnhart, at Ambach & Rice
Opening Oct. 8 at the Seattle Art Museum, Masterpieces from Musée National Picasso.
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