Picasso Painted Himself 72 Years Apart

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Picasso at 15 painted a self-portrait so precise his professors quit correcting him. So why does his final one look like a death mask? Leotia Barcelona 1896 academic realism every poor rendered. By 1907 he shattered portraiture with cubism.

[00:00:21]By 1937 Gua answered Franco's bombs with geometry. 13,000 paintings over eight decades. He mastered every style this century invented. Then 9 months before death, 1972, he grabbed a green crayon, drew a skull.

[00:00:40]13,000 answers, and the face was still question.