"The Picasso"

I was commissioned to do a neon and metal piece based on this Picasso drawing, which was owned by my client. I determined that it would be too complicated technically to execute this as one piece of art, so I decided to create two pieces of art (the "artist" as one piece, and the "work" as one piece). I envisioned that they could be displayed together or as two separate pieces of art. I discussed with my client the need to make the "knife" in the drawing smaller and less threatening, as he has a cosmetic surgery practice and planned to display my work in his office. After sending sketches of what I had in mind and getting the approval of my client, I proceeded to create the pieces shown on the next page.