“Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris” celebrates the artist’s genius with over 100 paintings from the Musee D’Orsay collection until October 9, 2011 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. 
“The works on view demonstrate the wide range of artistic styles and forms that the artist mastered, including: Celestina (1904), from the artist’s Blue Period; Two Brothers (1906), from the Rose Period; Expressionist studies for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907); the Cubist Man with a Guitar (1911), the Neoclassical Portrait of Olga (1917), the artist’s wife; the proto-Surrealist Two Women Running on a Beach (1922); Portrait of Dora Maar (1937), the artist’s lover and famed French artist; six Surrealist bronze heads of the artist’s mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter; the Head of a Bull (1942) fabricated from a bicycle seat and handlebars; the bronze Goat (1950); the six life-size bronze Bathers (1956); and the late self-portrait The Matador (1970).”
“Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris”
de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA