[Carolina]

His earlier works were magnificent. This is The Tragedy, 1903.

Le Gourmet, 1901.

Boulevard de Clichy, 1901.

[Billthedrill]

I agree whole-heartedly. Picasso's non-modernist stuff is exquisite - in Japan (Hakone, to be precise) I saw a pencil drawing of a human hand that rivalled Da Vinci, and a set of plates on which he'd painted bullfighting scenes that seemed to explode off the wall. He may have been a salesman and even a bit of a con artist in later life, but the boy could actually employ various media to communicate beauty, and that's my working definition of "art." Too many "artists" these days cannot draw a table lamp, but Picasso wasn't one of them.