As curators Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendell write in their ?Introduction? to the catalogue, the young Picasso grappled with Degas influence as their careers overlapped, but even after Degas' death, ?the mature Picasso continued to revisit Degas' work in his imagination. ... They married one year later, just as Degas'estate was sold off after his death, revealing to the public the then-surprising number of ballet pictures Degas had done in his later years. ...
