A conversation between the two...
"Not the least significant aspect of the two artists’ contrasting fortunes was the fact that, whereas Lautrec’s career lasted fifteen years, Picasso’s spanned seven decades. And while Picasso painted himself hundreds of times, Lautrec did so only twice, the first time in his oil painting “Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror” (1882–3), which is helpfully hung in the exhibition alongside Picasso’s “Yo Picasso” (1901), surely a conscious tribute to Lautrec’s work. And yet Lautrec caricatured himself in drawings many times, often charmingly, accentuating his unusual appearance."
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