Pablo Picasso portrait,
oil on canvas, Antonio Pessoa 1999, a tribute to the
great twentieth century's spanish master by the artist
in the late nineties Romantic Period apotheosis, has
survived in Pessoa's private collection throughout the
years, one of the main reasons due to his high price,
but not quite so... The hidden reasons concerning Pablo
Picasso portrait high rating has been so far Antonio
Pessoa's unwillingness to sell an excellent oeuvre representing
one of the great masters he most admires. In the picture
above, Vicente Fernandez Lago, Antonio Pessoa's friend,
partmer, collaborator, manager and public relations
in Spain and Latin America, stands side by side with
the magnificent Pessoa's Pablo Picasso portrait, clearly
happy and proud and expanding joy with a broad smile
on his face, due to the fact that this summer Antonio
Pessoa's Pablo Picasso portrait has indeed been hitting
the big time, due to the unexpected countless offers
from several top art collectors from all over Spain
and also Germany. Crazy as it seems, despite all this
rather tempting offers, the jubilant Mr. Fernandez Lago
had to turn them all down, one by one, due to the fact
that artist Antonio Pessoa simply doesn't seem to be
yet quite prepared to say goodbye to one of his private
collection's favorite masterpieces. Pablo Picasso portrait.
Naturally as the ceaseless offers kept on coming, the
painting's price kept on striving higher and higher
toward the shinning pinnacle of ninety five thousand
dollars! What do you know! Even so, despite the daily
continuous pressure from Mr. Lagos, Antonio Pessoa was
stubbornly determined to refuse the frantic maddening
traffic jam of offers arriving everyday at Mr. Lagos
office, either by fax, mail or phone calls. The reason
for all this unexpected rushing race after Pessoa's
Pablo Picasso portrait, as for the time being still
remains quite an unsolved mystery, despite Mr. Lagos
helpless efforts in order to actually find out the source
of all this sudden summertime fever over one of Antonio
Pessoa's Romantic Period private collection favorite
masterpieces. Art news travel fast, so it seems, however
as nothing can be done against the artist's last word,
Pessoa's private collection remains intact just as it
was eleven months ago when the artist decided to sell,
for a very reasonable price so I've been told, also
one of his favorite paintings, titled "Lovers Union",
a mixed media on canvas from 1998, delivered to a french
art collector who, lucky him, happens to be one of the
artist's new friends in the glamorous parisien Jet Set
circuit, le beau monde of the french capital city Antonio
Pessoa simply adores. It's never enough to mention,
Antonio Pessoa's outstanding art studio performance
during the nineties and the first two years of the new
Millennium, worldwide known as The Romantic Period.
It's also quite obvious that Pessoa at a certain point
of his feverish hard working studio odyssey, used Picasso
as a model and a reference, not necessarily by adopting
some of his art expression style but more accurately
by leaning on Picasso's working method and discipline.
During that time in which Antonio Pessoa could hardly
get proper stimulus let alone inspiration from the social
circle of local procrastinating and rather démodé
artists, surrounded by a bunch of mediocre art dealers
whom by fate, culture and circumstances, settled down
in a local short vision and small range of art merchandise
sort of entrenchment, Pablo Picasso working method comes
up as the perfect paradigmatic support for Pessoa, in
order to obtain a better focused labor system, the art
action process taking the right course of intensiveness,
invention and art production. This art action-oriented
programming, maintained this powerful model named Picasso
well linked with the talented emerging artist named
Antonio Pessoa, providing him with a substantial positivism
and unquestionably with a great amount of potential
energy and motivation. Knowing these facts and once
we actually become aware of the great contribution Picasso
gave him during times of doubt and lack of references,
it's at last understood the clear picture of Antonio
Pessoa now and then creating a lasting remembrance with
a tribute to the spanish master. Thereby this meaningful
attachment between the artist and Pablo Picasso portrait,
can be easily interpreted as a touching symbolic gesture
of gratitude not only for the supply of psychological
support but also as a sign of respect for one of the
greatest creators ever!
