FRANCES PICASSO IS DEAD could just as easily be “Frances War is Dead.” Both names mark the end of forces TAKI no longer needs to compete with. War, once his greatest adventure, has served its purpose. And had Picasso still been alive, TAKI might have chosen another medium entirely. But with both behind him, the path is clear. Just as Picasso drew from African Cubism to craft a new visual language—reviving what the West once dismissed—TAKI, with Frances as his muse, took the chaos of war and transformed it into a clarity the viewer cannot dismiss. A vision that is not just art, but life itself.