Ladies are coming to Gozo

Jean arrived in Gozo today.
I love her dearly........

......and my God-daughter Sadie arrives with another six young ladies tomorrow.
It reminds me of Picasso's great(est) work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon We visit them often, in NYC's MOMA.

In early 1907, Picasso began painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which would become arguably the most important of the century.
The painting began as a narrative brothel scene, with five prostitutes and two men — a medical student and a sailor. But the painting metamorphosed as he worked on it; Picasso painted over the clients, leaving the five women to gaze out at the viewer, their faces terrifyingly bold and solicitous.
There is a strong undercurrent of sexual anxiety. The features of the three women to the left were inspired by the wooden carvings on which he had worked him in the summer of 1906, influenced by the memory of the prehistoric Spanish sculpture he had seen in the Louvre.
The two women to the right were based on the masks that Picasso saw in the African and Oceanic collections in the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro in Paris.
His interpretation of African art, in these mask-like faces, was based on this idea of African savagery; his brush-strokes are hacking, impetuous, and violent. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was so shockingly new that Gertrude Stein called it "a veritable cataclysm." She meant this, of course, as a compliment.
Not only did this painting later become a turning point duly remarked upon in every history of modern art, but Picasso felt at the time that his whole understanding of painting was revised in the course of this canvas' creation.
He called it his "first exorcism picture."
I think it's a work of true genius. But I think Picasso didn't LIKE women, as much as I do!
It's about multiplicity & serendipity !