The greatest painter of the 20th century, even if the first of the moderns, could not ignore Poussin, a reference in classicism.
Picasso, as we can see at the Lyon MBA by an exhibition-file installed in the extension of the main one, found there with admiration his impulses, Eros like Thanatos.
In 1901 he had already recognized the authority of his distant predecessor: in his self -portrait
Yo Picasso
he adopted the pose of Poussin's self-portrait seen in the Louvre.
Still in Paris, thirty-five years later, Picasso took over the studio at 7, rue des Grands-Augustins;
the place where, it was then believed, Balzac had set the setting for his
Unknown Masterpiece
, a novel in which one of the main characters is none other than the young Poussin.
It is here above all that, as a master of composition, he most studied the way in which Poussin formalized the Bacchic theme in the space of the canvas.
This for an ever more chaotic and unbridled effect.
It was useless to him to know that Richelieu had done...
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