Picasso captured by the photographer's eye in new exhibition

A marine stripe jumper, a crown of grey hair surrounding his bald spot and a penetrating gaze: it is an image that has become emblematic of Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist adored by some of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. A new exhibition in his museum in Barcelona, “Picasso, Photographer’s Gaze”, is a journey through the artist’s life through pictures, some of them taken by Picasso himself and others with him as the protagonist. Included is a 1952 portrait by French photographer Robert Doisneau in which the painter appears for the first time with his trademark marine striped jumper behind a window, leaning on the glass. By then, Picasso was living in the south of France where he would spend the last years of his life as a celebrity, under the lens of prestigious photographers like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai or David Douglas Duncan. “Picasso is photogenic. He’d had that awareness since he was very young and played with this image,” says Violeta Andres, cur