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de la Serna, Gomez Picasso Turin, 1945 6-7. Print.

Golding, John "The Demoiselles d'Avignon," The Burlington Magazine, V-C 662 May 1958 160. Print.

Barr, Alfred H. Picasso: 50 Years of His Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946 106. Print.

de la Serna, Gomez quoted by Sir Roland Penrose. Picasso - His Life and Work (Harper: New York, 1958) pp. 16 and 39. Print.

On the influence of El Greco: "We have seen that from the time of Barr's early remarks about the Demoiselles (above, p, 25), El Greco's influence was envisioned as clearly playing some role in the picture. And in 1980 Ron Johnson, in his imaginative article about Picasso's literary sources, not only reemphasized the El Greco influence, but pointed directly to El Greco's "Apocalyptic Vision" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, known since 1908 as "The Opening of the Fifth Seal" (fig.200) as a possible direct source for the Demoiselles. Johnson saw the latter's "segmented blue and white backgropund curtain with its "strange relationships between the figures and the drapery, the broken angular frames of the drapery, the unusual gestures, and the nearly square canvas without much setting" directly with "Apocalyptic Vision." Johnson's observation generated interest in many quarters, although his was riot, in fact, the first text to signal the affinity between these two particular pictures. Neither Johnson, nor later scholars writing on the subject appear to have been aware that in 1973 the Spanish poet and art critic Santiago Amon himself (and, for that matter, Johnson too) may have gotten the cue for this juxtaposition from a 1957 German publication or, more probably, from a 1968 issue of Life magazine. Arnon's text was never translated, however, and no notice seems to have been taken of it at the time in art-historical circles.

By 1986, at least two scholars, clearly unaware of Amon's work and of each other's parallel interests, were independently working to explore the relationship between the Demoiselles and "Apocalyptic Vision." In May of that year, the Danish art historian Rolf Laesse completed and sent to the Gazette des beaux-arts a text titled "A source : New York, 1975) p.11. Print.

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