Picasso’s Citroen

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In 1936, Pablo Picasso met photographer Dora Maar and declared her his "private muse." Their tortured love affair produced a series of portraits that portray Maar in the deconstructed and displaced style of Cubism.

In 2007, Andy Saunders did the same thing to a Citroen 2CV.

The car, named Picasso’s Citroen, debuted at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed . Due to its unusual design, the car is only legally drivable during the daytime. Saunders, who claims the car is the marriage of art and design, hopes to eventually sell it to a gallery or museum.

Picasso’s portraiture revealed the fractured nature of the human psyche. Does the Picasso car criticize the power of the automobile industry and its effect on the environment? Or maybe it’s just kind of cute? I’ll leave that one up to the art historians.