Word from the Master

When British Photographer Felix Man began compiling a book on eight contemporary European artists, he asked each of his subjects to contribute a drawing and a statement on his philosophy of art. The contributions soon arrived from seven: Georges Braque ("I search rather to put myself in unison with nature than to copy her"), Marc Chagall ("A painting is born into the world like a child"). Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. But it was not until the book was ready for the presses that Photographer Man got his contribution from Pablo Picasso. This week the book (Eight European Artists, Heinemann, Ltd., London) was out with a message for posterity from the world's greatest painter. The message: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ."

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