9. Pablo Picasso – 347 Series, Eau-forte 7 aout I 1968
Picasso was never shy about depicting eroticism in his work. Ever. From his earliest drawings to his last paintings, sex in all its pathos, pain, humour and lust was a constant influence. Throughout his life, Picasso maintained a deft ironic touch with his erotic works. In a 1936 work, the artist even depicted himself as a minotaur grappling with his mistress Dora Maar; he drew himself into a magazine page as a lascivious old man sizing up a pinup model 20 years later. In 1972 Critics panned an exhibit of Picasso’s erotic engravings in Avignon as the senile scrawlings of a dirty old man.