Inscription: The Conversion of the Minotaur

Paula did a number of Minotaur images but I don’t think this little coloured sketch of a five year old boy is part of a series. The title is written in Paula’s hand and it is on the front of a folded (four sided) sheet. On the fourth side is written “love from Paula”. Paula adored Picasso’s minotaurs and had two of his famous prints on her sitting room mantelpiece. The one with a sleeping

girl and the minotaur looming over her elicited a comment by Paula: “She’s going to have a surprise when she wakes up”. Over the twenty six years I was privileged to be alongside Paula, she never deviated from her ranking of the three greatest artists who ever lived: Velázquez, Goya and Picasso. If I add her own name to that list we have the Iberian Quartet. On an impulse I googled Iberian Quartet and it exists; terrific sound on the cusp of modern jazz and classical music: two Spanish and two Portuguese musicians.