Picasso wartime self-portrait to be sold at New York auction

Pablo Picasso, ‘Le Marin, 28 October 1943,’ oil on canvas. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NEW YORK – Pablo Picasso’s Le Marin, 28 October 1943 will be offered at Christie’s May 15 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art. Executed at the height of Occupation, Le Marin, widely recognized as Picasso himself, clad in his iconic striped fisherman’s jersey, offers one of the most profound and revealing views into the artist’s wartime psyche.

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