The great ones steal


Always brash and cheeky, Pablo Picasso was never short on attitude. And here is a humorous example of that modus operandi.
His maxim that lesser artists borrow while the great ones steal is to be illustrated in Britain with a historic pairing of two artworks (David Sanderson writes). The National Gallery is collaborating with an American institution to show for the first time Picasso’s Woman with a Book side by side with Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
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