By last week Manhattan reviewers had had their seasonal say on Pablo Picasso, as represented in two fairly comprehensive shows. Gallerygoers, who kept on talking, agreed as usual that the forelocked Spaniard had performed most flatteringly in his so-called "Blue" period (sad, cool, Cézanneish portraits and figure paintings), most disturbingly later. Exhibited at the Seligmann Galleries for the first time anywhere was the renowned Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, painted in 1907, Picasso's first really cut-&-run experiment and the second biggest canvas he ever painted (8 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in.).* The Demoiselles...
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