The pictures are a sample of 25,000 taken of the artist by David Douglas Duncan, an American war photographer who first met Picasso in Cannes in 1956. Photograph: David Douglas Duncan/Succession Picasso 2022Duncan, who died in 2018, became a firm friend of the Spanish-born painter despite their difficulties in communicating. The man he called maestro throughout their friendship instead told him: “You take pictures, I paint.”Another of Douglas Duncan’s images of Picasso and his wife, this time in 1960. Photograph: David Douglas Duncan/Succession Picasso 2022Duncan’s photos were taken with a custom-built Leica M3D camera with extremely quiet shutters so that Picasso would not be disturbed as he worked. Picasso stretched out his hand, his fingers splayed, and answered: ‘Well, which of these five fingers do you prefer?

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2022 00:31 UTC