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 | | Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes once said that "To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. |
 | | As critic Hughes notes, "There was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn't inspire, contribute to or--in the case of Cubism, which, in one of art history's great collaborations, he co-invented with Georges Braque--beget." Quite simply, as well as being a force of culture, Picasso was also a force of nature. |
 | | Long held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the work was transferred to Spains Prado in 1981, and was moved to the Queen Sofia Center of Art, Madrid, in 1992. |
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