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Picasso's Owls
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The fact that Picasso liked to surround himself with animals is well known. One day in 1946, as Picasso was working at the Musée d'Antibes, his photographer friend Michel Sima, brought Picasso an injured owl he had found in the corner of the museum. This tiny bird will featrure heavily in both the paintings and the ceramics of the following years.
Title: Picasso's Owls
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The fact that Picasso liked to surround himself with animals is well known.
One day in 1946, as Picasso was working at the Musée d'Antibes, his photographer friend Michel Sima, brought Picasso an injured owl he had found in the corner of the museum.
This tiny bird will featrure heavily in both the paintings and the ceramics of the following years.
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