Self Portrait - Paris , 1901 . Oil on canvas . Musée Picasso, Paris.    

      

 

 

 

The eye of the Bull
The curtain
The painter
The bunch of flowers
The light falling
The iron door
Constantly adjusting skirt
Wounding and stabbing
Flying darts
Wings
Insults
Female bullfighter
Hiding shame under tablecloth
Bandaged eyes
The painter's long hair
Two halves, (the half that smiles, the half that sighs).

 

1935

 

 

 

The bull's horn opens the gourd of old wine of the

horse's stomach

and the cave which lights up the oil of his blood

plashes the curtains with his entrails mixing in the

threads of the theatre curtain

the illusion of the drama taking place.

 

2.2.1936 - Translated from Bernadac, page 69 .

 

 

The never ending link

of the black painting

on waxed canvas

unnailed from the frame,

enveloping the drama under it's folds.

 

11.2.1937 - Translated from Bernadac, Page 70 .

 

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