Descripción
This portrait seems to correspond to the words of Luis Rosales, “what Picasso intends to do and proposes to us, in these portraits, is an in-depth reading, a reading of the most permanent part of the portrayed. He sacrifices the external appearance to remain faithful to the volume, and ignores the small details to search for the most characteristic part of the model, his way of being. In short, he searches for identity, not external appearance.” Joliot-Curie was a famous nuclear physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. In 1949 he was elected president of the Peace Movement. The poster was made on February 26, 1959 to announce the tribute in his honor, held a year after his death, on August 14, 1956. The famous scientist went with Picasso to participate in the third Peace Conference, held in November 1950, in Sheffield, Great Britain. However, he was unable to attend because the British government refused him entry into the country. This outrage provoked a protest from Winston Churchill in Parliament, criticising the way in which the measure had been carried out.
