Picasso would work as energetically as ever, right up to his death aged 91, leaving a heap of late works. L’Atelier claims to “reimagine Picasso’s Cannes Studio as an immersive experience within the gallery”, but it doesn’t do that with much precision. Photograph: Courtesy of Bastian GalleryThese African pieces did not belong to him, which is an appalling sleight of hand. As for seriously examining Picasso’s work from the 1950s to 1973, it turns out the show doesn’t do that, either. Throughout, late works are judiciously spiced up with 1930s masterpieces including a rare gem: Picasso’s illustrated edition of Aristophanes’s ancient Greek sex-strike comedy Lysistrata.

Source: The Guardian August 31, 2020 14:48 UTC