Pablo Picasso | 4 May 1945 | Etching Neon palette Hook — the Gibraltar-born artist

Hook — the Gibraltar-born artist who painted the official Robbie Williams portrait — brings to this more abstract work the formal intelligence and technical command that characterises his figurative practice

not yet refining

Pink on Pink is among Kate Paul's most formally daring works — a monumental canvas in which the calligraphic gesture and the ground share the same hue

in the moment of frustration or surprise or the recognition that something has gone irremediably wrong

Fruitful is the title that suggests the full cycle of natural growth — from blossom to fruit

Pablo Picasso | 4 May 1945 | Etching Neon palette Hook — the Gibraltar-born artistPablo Picasso (18811973) 4 May 1945 Etching Etching Dated in the plate Dated in the plate 4 May 1945 just four days before VE Day, the formal end of the Second World War in Europe this etching is among the most historically specific works in Picasso's graphic output. The date itself is the subject as much as anything depicted: the world on the verge of transformation, the end of six years of European catastrophe four days away, the specific quality of