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Nature 444, 149 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444149a; Published online 8 November 2006
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Exhibition: The ballerina within
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BOOK REVIEWED-Picasso XRAYS
Xavier Lucchesi's exhibition, 'Picasso XRAYS', can be seen at the National Picasso Museum in Paris (http://www.musee-picasso.fr) until 8 January 2007.
At just over 60 centimetres tall, Picasso's Bust of a Woman (1931) is a small, compact mass of a sculpture that smacks of Stone Age totems. Using computerized tomography (CT), photographic artist Xavier Lucchesi has assembled three-dimensional images of it (shown here), revealing what appears to be another, antithetical form hidden inside.
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