So entrenched is Picasso in the highest levels of world art now that nothing we can say here could convince those critics, collectors, and museums who have such a large vested interest in his reputation that he might be vastly overrated.

All we can do is suggest: Come back in a hundred years and then see how his stuff--along with many of his like-brushed fellows--has been relegated to the salon-painting dustbin of history. Anybody wanna bet?

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