Pablo Picasso | 4 May 1945 | Etching Neon palette not yet refining

not yet refining

Hook — the Gibraltar-born artist who painted the official Robbie Williams portrait — brings to this more abstract work the formal intelligence and technical command that characterises his figurative practice

the recurring figure — that runs through his practice from his earliest collaborations with Keith Haring through his independent career

he becomes something more ambiguous

Pink on Pink is among Kate Paul's most formally daring works — a monumental canvas in which the calligraphic gesture and the ground share the same hue

Pablo Picasso | 4 May 1945 | Etching Neon palette not yet refiningPablo Picasso (18811973) 4 May 1945 Etching Etching Dated in the plate Dated in the plate 4 May 1945 just four days before VE Day, the formal end of the Second World War in Europe this etching is among the most historically specific works in Picasso's graphic output. The date itself is the subject as much as anything depicted: the world on the verge of transformation, the end of six years of European catastrophe four days away, the specific quality of