PABLO Picasso must be smiling in his grave – a great, orgasmic grin of pleasure at the fact that, 80 years after he painted his young lover, Marie Therese Walter, the portrait still has the capacity to shock.
Last week, several passengers arriving at Edinburgh Airport were sufficiently disturbed by a poster showing the portrait, Nude Woman In A Red Armchair, to complain, prompting managers to cover up the offending image, which was advertising the Gallery of Modern Art's latest exhibition.
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