Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973): Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), 1910 (Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art New York) - “…is not only one of the most beautiful, lyrical and accessible of all Cubist paintings, but is also a valuable document of the period…Picasso saw the work as unfinished, allows us an insight into his aesthetic intentions and his technical procedure…Cubist paintings were becoming more abstract in appearance, the artists were still deeply conditioned, at least in the early stages of their works, by the material existence and the physical appearance of their subjects….” - John Golding