Pablo Picasso
Construction of Picasso sculpture at the Civic Center (Richard J. Daley Center), 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1967 © Chicago Sun-Times Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

In 1963 Picasso was commissioned to create a large sculpture for a civic center in Chicago. This monumental work, 15 meters in height and weighing 162 tons, was produced in weathering steel by the American Bridge Company, and was unveiled in the summer of 1967, causing quite a stir

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