"Hommage to Picasso"
1973
oil on canvas

From Karen Tsujimoto and Jacquelynn Baas (via):

"Brown was emphatic about retaining her artistic freedom and not being typecast into a certain style of painting or aesthetic. In this regard she looked to Picasso as an important role model, as witnessed in her painting, Homage to Picasso, 1973 which was completed during this period. Here Brown depicts Picasso standing before fragments of his paintings representing the vast range of his art that stretched from classical realism to cubist abstraction. 'I respond to Picasso and respect him tremendously becasue he wasn't worried about style as a definition of his ego,' Brown elaborated. 'He didn't need to be an abstract paintiner or a still life painter, or a portrait painter - he did whatever he pleased, setting his own rules and breakingthe, as soon as he made them.'"

- from the Art of Joan Brown by Karen Tsujimoto and Jacquelynn Baas, ISBN 0-520-21469-2