Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) San Francisco and strangers as source material

and strangers as source material

Koons often references human sexual anatomy—but

which serve as their main sources

exploring the possibilities of terre verte (green earth)

as well as photographs of the works in process

Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) San Francisco and strangers as source materialThis poster featuring Femme assise prs de la fentre (1956) was produced in 2010, in conjunction with Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (19451962) at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. Curated by John Richardson and Bernard Ruiz Picasso, the exhibition focused on the postwar years in which Picasso began to spend more and more time in the South of France, marking a return to the Mediterranean heritage that had nourished some of his most important