Picasso cubism!
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910 by Pablo Picasso
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) was one of the great art dealers of the 20th century. He championed Paul Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, Gauguin and Henri Matisse.
He promoted Picasso's blue and rose periods, but he was careful about cubism.
Guernica (picasso)
When Picasso later returned to a figuration informed by cubist richness and surrealist eroticism, they collaborated on one of Picasso's greatest achievements: his lubricious, mytho-erotic Vollard Suite, 100 engraved plates completed in 1937, culminating in emotional portraits of Vollard, who was to die two years later in a car crash.
In Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, Vollard's downcast eyes, apparently closed, the massive explosion of his bald head, multiplying itself up the painting like an egg being broken open, his bulbous nose and the dark triangle of his beard are the first things the eye latches on to.
They are recognizable. At least that's the way your mind, throug