"Several weeks after shooting the closeup of his eyes, [Duncan] mounted two enlargements on canvases hoping [Picasso] might sign them . . . He refused--then picked up his sketch pad, tore out two pages, reached for his scissors, then his charcoal, and in a couple of minutes finished two self-portraits of Pablo Picasso as an owl. [Villa La Californie, 1957.]" Viva Picasso, p. 145. |