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Yes - we had it here at MOMA until 1981. In Paris I sneaked into the room in which he painted it at 7 rue des Grands Augustins…

Wow. Cool. What was that like?

Totally vacant. Soundless. I absorbed it, sketched the view. I’d sneaked in with a motorcycle club that was meeting in the building. I’d written a play, RUE PICASSO, about Picasso under the Nazi Occupation. It became a screenplay that I once handed in to Pacino who I thought then could play him…

My favorite painting in the world.

Tourist at an art museum, I took an elevator alone to a random floor and blithely stepped out to this. It stopped all movement the elevator door almost caught my coat, closing. Exactly the feeling of the sudden explosion of war.

I've stood in front of Picasso's "Guernica" so many times--we used to live right up the street from the museum, now a 1/2 hr walk--but people who have only seen reproductions are really not prepared for how huge & impactful it is.

Worth a trip to Madrid!

Oh, 💯!

Just up from the Prado if you fancy some old stuff!