Man in the mirror

Olivier Picasso, a grandson of the late master, brings an insightful photo show to China. Deng Zhangyu reports.

Spanish master Pablo Picasso will never know how much he is celebrated in China. He is not known to have visited the country even once during his long and prosperous life.

But Olivier Picasso, one of his grandchildren, has already made amends - he came to Beijing last week, bringing along an exhibition of photos that show Pablo Picasso's intimate time at his studio in France, as well as the working styles of some other great 20th-century artists.