Eerie model of Picasso's corpse lies in Spanish birthplace


  • World
  • Saturday, 06 May 2017

MALAGA, Spain (Reuters) - A life-size model of the corpse of Pablo Picasso lies on a plinth in his home city of Malaga, eyes closed, hands folded.

The artist who transformed his subjects into Cubist abstractions is immortalised in an eerily realistic sculpture dressed in his trademark blue and white striped jersey and black rope-soled shoes.

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