PICASSO SELF-PORTRAIT 1902

    This 1902 self-portrait by Pablo Picasso depicts the artist wearing a beret. The beret's origins are usually traced to the Basque region of Europe in the Pyrenees Mountains, the natural border between France and Spain. 

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