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WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Monster was the artistic production of Picasso, this consuming images ogre who, throughout his life, never ceased to feed on a fantastic and constantly multiplied pool of images.

With an insatiable curiosity, Picasso looked at the classics as well as his contemporaries. From his visits to studios, museums and other galleries, he drew from the original and primary sources a raw material, always reprocessed by the game of memory, in the light of his own preoccupations and research. To this substrate, without any real hierarchy, have been added the secondary visual sources, those resulting from reproduction in its multiple forms, in black and white or in color: prints; posters, newspapers or miscellaneous printed matter; books and periodicals; not to mention a formidable collection of postcards.