what if James Thurber
sketched Pablo Picasso from life …
what would he have seen?
Thurber in 1939 was half blind and Picasso was, well, Picasso.
I can wonder, how did Thurber see him?
Happy to say that for the New Yorker profile, One Man Group, written by Janet Flanner about Mr. Picasso we know what it would look like and here it is.
Here is how it appeared in the New Yorker …
I am reminded of Gertrude Stein telling Mr. Picasso that his portrait of her did not look like her …
Picasso is said to have replied, “It will.”
You can see more little or lesser known Thurber drawings here – https://muggsandrex.wordpress.com/
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