Pablo Picasso was a painter at heart, but as he once said, “Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” According to the art critic Pierre Daix, “He was at least as great a sculptor as he was a painter, and for him these two aspects of his work were always complementary.” In 1909, for instance, Picasso’s fragmented sculpture Head of a Woman, which depicted his then lover Fernande Olivier, is in line with the movement he was spearheading at the time—Cubism. In 1942, during the war, he made Bull’s Head from a bicycle seat (the head) and handlebars (the horns). As the art critic Eric Gibson has written of the work, “both childlike and highly sophisticated in its simplicity, it stands as an assertion of the transforming power of the human imagination at a time when human values were under siege.” The Museo Picasso Málaga now presents Picasso’s first sculpture retrospective in Spain, the country of his birth. —Elena Clavarino