I just ran across this photo of Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) made up as a clown and, since it’s his 128th birthday this month, I thought I’d include it with some of his circus paintings. The photo accompanied an article titled “Artists and Clowns” by Albert Faurot from the Third Quarter, 1963 edition of Silliman Journal. (No pun intended; that’s a university in the Philippines!) Note that at the time of writing Picasso still had ten years to live.

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
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—Bill Irwin