At the end of a memoir, this person throws his wristwatch at the narrator and shouts, “Your time is no longer mine!” A loose biography of this person states that he “was always possessed by the necessity of emptying himself, of emptying himself completely.” A magisterial four-part biography of this person took John Richardson thirty years to complete. This person studied objects “as a surgeon dissects a cadaver,” according to his friend’s collection of “aesthetic meditations.” Françoise (*) Gilot (“zhee-LOH”) detailed her tempestuous relationship with this person in a memoir detailing the birth of their daughter Paloma. This painter’s portrayal of “travelers, even more transient than we are ourselves” inspired the fifth Duino Elegy, which describes his depiction of “the Saltimbanque’s smile.” For 10 points, a portrait by what artist was praised for being the “only reproduction of me which is always I” by its sitter, Gertrude Stein? ■END■
ANSWER: Pablo Picasso [or Pablo Ruiz Picasso]
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