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Sep 17, 2019
Picasso Goes to Heaven
Picasso Goes to Heaven
1973–76
Red Grooms
(American, b. 1937)
Etching colored by stencil with watercolor
Anonymous Gift 1978.31
© Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Catalogue raisonné: Alexander & Cowles 32
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Picasso Goes to Heaven, like Groom's three-dimensional construction, Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church, is a zany, cartoonlike scene teeming with visual clutter. In this animated caricature, Grooms pokes fun at Picasso with the same gusto he used to describe the raucous exhilaration of urban life. Art is rarely so amusing. As Grooms says, "Humor is like boxing. You set 'em up. Then, whammo!"
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