"When I paint," Pablo Picasso once said, "my object is to show what I have found, and not what I am looking for. In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons." A new edition of Verve, in U.S. bookstores last week, showed proofs of Picasso's recent finds and loves.
The paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool...
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