The Bull in Winter - the Last Years of Pablo Picasso
'The meaningless scribbling of a frenetic old man in the antechamber of death' was how the writer and collector
Douglas Cooper described the late work of Pablo Picasso. The artist himself had been hidden away for years behind the walls of his well-guarded villa, and, when he died aged 91 in 1973 the critical battle continued over the paintings he'd produced in the last two decades of his life. Cooper had been a personal friend - other critics were even less restrained - they wrote of 'pornography, infantilism, senility'. Gradually, the inventiveness of the later works began to be recognised, and now, 15 years on, make up your own minds with the opening at the Tate of an exhibition devoted to the 'late Picasso'. Omnibus looks at these controversial works and hears from the family and close friends of the great artist.
With Francoise Gilot
Paloma Picasso ,
Claude Picasso , Helene Parmelin and John Richardson.
Film cameraman RICHARD ADAM Film editor MIKE CROZIER
Producer DAVID SWEETMAN