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‘Notoriously cruel’: should we cancel Picasso? Collectors, artists, critics and curators decide

He was the 20th century’s most influential artist – but he was also a monstrous misogynist. On the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, we ask: is it time to mothball the master?

‘I feel like Pablo when I’m workin’ on my shoes,” declared Kanye West in a line – from his 2015 tune No More Parties in LA – that became a slogan. “I feel like Pablo when I see me on the news / I feel like Pablo when I’m workin’ on my house / Tell ’em party’s in here, we don’t need to go out.”

Eight years on, the reputation of Picasso – the Pablo in question – might not quite be as comprehensively trashed as West’s, but it has nosedived nonetheless. When Picasso died at the age of 91, 50 years ago tomorrow, the Guardian called him the most influential artist of the 20th century. Today, Picasso is more often talked about as a misogynist and cultural appropriator, the ultimate example of problematic white guys clogging up the artistic canon.

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