Saturday was Russ and my anniversary--40 years since our first date! He and Tommy and Joey were still in Chicago from the funeral, so we all headed to Millennium Park for a morning in the city, and to the Chicago Art Institute for a bit. And they had a splendid reprint of Picasso's "The Old Guitarist," one of my favorite paintings since when we were dating, so Russ bought it for me for our anniversary. It looks like this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-w_IDWAgMzlqbo2aP40CEgWvltNAU4mkI9gnwMpEFIegkFkLuZ8IIbm4jSt5f6ni2X_q_KH6fe_7xDAqks-l13SBxhel8-tWwCLEgqms2RnhfIl9MybXne-WCUu5FwB2009fe6pIRpGs/s400/oldguitarist.jpg)
I already had a smaller nice poster of that painting, but it doesn't look at all the same--it's duller, with some markings as if paint had flaked off:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc66ah3ZJOeVWgsvZayzEJdnErdxZQKJqcUU3k_bBPUz9OmnMv5Itpn4Z67ysW6bBtIwZ5AptC9BJdPbQE3Y7Hp3bmcjWo0z3QDF_9wwtGuuAtEBzpTMZAgphlPHKmH-R8_U9YF6VNT1Q/s400/41VlKvcGvuL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
So my question is, was the poster made from the painting before a restoration, after which the new print was made? I don't know how to find out. Anyone know?