Picasso's Le Gourmet Up Close Canvas Print

"Le Gourmet" was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1901. This photograph is "up close", meaning I focused on the girl's upper body and face. The actual painting shows the girl's full body, and a photograph of that painting precedes this one in my gallery. The painting is on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it was photographed.

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...