Whilst visiting the exhibition ‘Picasso on paper’ at the Compton Verney I saw a lithograph ‘Paloma et Claude’ that depicts two of his children by Françoise Gilot. The lithograph is unusual as he applied the ink using his fingertips and diluted it with saliva. The piece is divided into two (one half for each child), which could communicate how his attention was divided and that he struggled to focus on either one. Claude’s half is much more built up than Paloma’s and given more of the finger marks, possibly indicating that at this time he was thinking more about Claude. The fact that the marks are made of Picasso’s fingerprints makes the piece personal and shows an acknowledgement that these are his children and that his DNA that is shown in his fingerprint is also visible in his children. If this is the case then Paloma having fewer marks could be Picasso communicating that she takes more after her mother and that he can see more of himself in Claude.