Man with a Lollipop  1938

Picasso turned the youth in the drawing (MMA 1999.363.68) into the weather-beaten old man seen in this painting. Given the artist's predilection for the sexual and the macabre, and as an astute reader of Freud, he was perhaps poking fun at those who, late in life, revert to childlike pleasures or seek substitutes for erotic ones. (Source: [url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art...