C oming to auction this June in Sotheby’s London’s Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection, discover a series of Picasso portraits that tell deeply personal stories. These works are on view in London, 10 – 23 June, with the evening auction taking place on 24 June and the day auction on 25 June.
Pablo Picasso once imagined that if every path he had taken were traced onto a map, the result might resemble a Minotaur. Half man, half beast, the creature became far more than a figure from ancient mythology. It became a portrait of the artist himself: driven by desire, haunted by contradiction, and caught between tenderness and destruction.
Across a remarkable group of works, Picasso transformed the women closest to him into timeless symbols, muses and mirrors of his inner life. From the classical serenity of Olga Khokhlova to the magnetic presence of Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, these portraits chart a deeply personal mythology where love, longing and identity collide. At the centre of it all stands the Minotaur, revealing an artist who turned the drama of his own life into some of the most compelling images of the twentieth century.
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