Editing Pablo Picasso (section)

=== Later works to final years: 1949–1973 ===
[[File:2004-09-07 1800x2400 chicago picasso.jpg|thumb|upright|right|The [[Chicago Picasso]], a 50-foot high public [[Cubist sculpture]]. Donated by Picasso to the people of Chicago in 1967]]

Picasso was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the [[3rd Sculpture International]] held at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] in mid-1949. In the 1950s, Picasso's style changed once again, as he took to producing reinterpretations of the art of the great masters. He made a [[Las Meninas (Picasso)|series]] of works based on [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]]'s painting ''[[Las Meninas]]''. He also based paintings on works by [[Francisco Goya|Goya]], [[Nicolas Poussin|Poussin]], [[Édouard Manet|Manet]], [[Gustave Courbet|Courbet]] and [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]].{{fact|date=August 2023}}

By this time, Picasso had constructed a huge [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] home, and could afford large villas in the south of France, such as Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie on the outskirts of [[Mougins]], and in the [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]]. He was an international celebrity, with often as much interest in his personal life as his art.<ref name="chess" />

In 1952, Picasso met [[Jacqueline Roque]], who worked at the Madoura Pottery in [[Vallauris]] on the [[French Riviera]], where Picasso made and painted ceramics. She became his lover, and then his second wife in 1961. The two were together for the remainder of Picasso's life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=AnOther |date=23 June 2016 |title=The Women Behind the Work: Picasso and His Muses |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8799/the-women-behind-the-work-picasso-and-his-muses |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=AnOther |language=en}}</ref> 

In addition to his artistic accomplishments, Picasso made a few film appearances, always as himself, including a cameo in [[Jean Cocteau]]'s ''[[Testament of Orpheus]]'' (1960). In 1955, he helped make the film ''Le Mystère Picasso'' (''[[The Mystery of Picasso]]'') directed by [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]].
[[File:Pablo picasso 1.jpg|thumb|left|alt=An elderly Pablo Picasso in a cloth cap, grinning at the camera|upright|Picasso in 1962]]
He was commissioned to make a [[maquette]] for a huge {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=on}}-high [[public art|public sculpture]] to be built in Chicago, known usually as the [[Chicago Picasso]]. He approached the project with a great deal of enthusiasm, designing a sculpture which was ambiguous and somewhat controversial. Picasso said the figure represented the head of an [[Afghan Hound]] named Kabul.<ref name=kabul>[[Stanley Coren|Coren, Stanley]]. [https://archive.today/20201203133016/https://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/picassos-dogs/20275 "Muse and mascot: the artist's life-long love affair with his canine companions"]. ''[[Modern Dog (magazine)|Modern Dog]]''. Archived from [https://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/picassos-dogs/20275 the original.]</ref> The sculpture, one of the most recognizable landmarks in downtown Chicago, was unveiled in 1967. Picasso refused to be paid $100,000 for it, donating it to the people of the city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chicago Picasso, 1962-64 by Pablo Picasso |url=https://www.pablopicasso.org/chicago-picasso.jsp |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=www.pablopicasso.org}}</ref>

Picasso's final works were a mixture of styles, his means of expression in constant flux until the end of his life. Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colourful and expressive, and from 1968 to 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings. At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.<ref name="wort472"/><ref name="late0"/> Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from [[abstract expressionism]], did the critical community come to see the late works of Picasso as prefiguring [[Neo-Expressionism]].<ref name="late3"/>

In the spring of 1973, Picasso assisted in putting together 201 of his paintings  for the [[Festival d'Avignon|Avignon Arts Festival]], which opened at the [[Palais des Papes]] in May of that year.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=1973-04-09 |title=Picasso Is Dead in France at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/09/archives/picasso-is-dead-in-france-at-91-picasso-dies-at-his-villa-in.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The canvases, according to Paul Puaux, the festival director who had visited Picasso at his home, represented the artist's work from October 1970 until the end of 1972.<ref name=":5" />