Interesting from a technique point of view as we have white figures on white paper, brought out by painting or colouring around them in black. A version of the wood cut or lino cut where you cut out around your figure. With the difference that Picasso's ink was used to fill in the background, whereas the woodcutter's ink is used to fill in the figure.
I should have had a closer look at the time, because I am not sure now whether the white lines, for example bottom right on the leftmost picture, are made by not blacking them in the first place or by scraping a white line from a black area. Perhaps Bing or Google knows. Perhaps a reason to go back - noting that paying twice is still a lot cheaper than the membership they suggested that I renew, even though the price for the exhibition seems to have crept up since I bought our tickets last year. Maybe we got an early bird discount.
Oddly, when one of the series was reproduced in the Evening Standard (I think), it had no impact, did not work at all. Either it failed to reproduce or it needed proper hanging to work. Perhaps a bit of both.
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