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Centered around the artist’s mistress Marie-Thérèse work morphed together” Walter the curators, Picasso biographer John Richardson and Dianne Widimaier Picasso (the artist and Marie-Thérèse’s grandaughter), have to - Therese (1935). Therein the first of the two com - gether chosen eighty plus works from the years mences a melody with an arc in the subject’s 1927-1940 that best represent this mysterious béret, which then goes on to become the unstated muse. For this unprecedented show, the chambers undulating motif of the next two rooms and is even - of Gagosian’s west 21st street gallery in Chelsea tually broken up throughout, while the second, a have been redone to spectacular effect by the side profile posed in the obverse of the usual odal - architect Annabelle Selldorf. Here again in con - isque, carries the visual cadence forth as well. tinuance, Larry Gagosian is blazing new turf for a commercial gallery to tread where museums once Exiting the first room and passing the very strange staked dominion. While Larry Salander, the phi - Marie-Thérèse accoudée (1939) things take a landerer, languishes in jail and the memory of dramatic turn in the next room; whereas unlike rustled Rembrandts and hustled Courbets (whereas double decker tourist buses which only go around he took the money and DeNiro took the stand) in a circle, Picasso’s faces tend to go in different Gagosian leaps from Anselm Kiefer’s triumph of directions. Le visage de Marie-Thérèse de profil last year’s Next Year in Jerusalem to this tour de (1931) is a most elegant delineation in shades of force by any measure, a Picasso exhibit on a single tan, grey and black. In this canvas, the separated theme —which would have given any William and abstracted face descends into a line, and an - Rubin curated exhibit at the MOMA more than a other swoops down not into an oval and a half, run for its millions. but, into an into oval and half an oval which then form an elongated ellipse. Further below, the pro - Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions at the file is a form, buxom yet slim, sublime masculine Gagosian galleries worldwide, this show leaves and feminine, and reminiscent of the silhouette of no doubt that Marie-Thérèse was one of the great a very fit Ricky Martin in a boater shirt.