Article: RESTORATION OF PAINTINGS CASTS NEW LIGHT ON FRYE COLLECTION.(Entertainment)

Charles Frye liked showoffs. He liked painters who'd flaunt skill for its own sake. More than any other, this trait limited him and his wife, Emma, as collectors.

Not that skill is a vice. Picasso was raised by a realist painter father, Spain's master of pigeons. At puberty, Picasso could paint with startling verisimilitude the lacy veils of first communions, the hair on a beloved head, the light of the day.

And yet he chose the hard road of developing a different kind of skill, the ability to distort powerfully, to flatten his figures and still depict their life in the round, to extend the real instead of copy it.

He left behind the old ...

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