Picasso and Matisse, to the Rescue

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Picasso said: “I don’t look, I find.” That’s why Matisse, when he knew Picasso was going to visit his studio, hid his best paintings and only showed him those in which he had failed. Picasso had only one look to retain the miracle of an unpublished brushstroke, the way Matisse had solved a composition problem, the substantive use of color, and he could copy it with all boldness. Indeed, he had found, even though Matisse tried to set him up. The …