Picasso’s favourite subjects were the Spanish civil war, naked women and bullfights. Laurent Schwarz prefers elephants, horses and dinosaurs.
And yet the two-and-a-half-year-old from Bavaria is gaining a reputation as a pint-sized Picasso thanks to his big, bold and colourful abstracts that are fetching up to €6,500 on the international market.
Even to the untrained eye, Laurent’s works are a very distant cry from the stick figures, crooked houses and smiling suns fashioned by children three times his age that are dutifully and temporarily taped to fridges.
His mother, Lisa Schwarz, 32, suspected she may have a wunderkind on her hands during a family holiday in South Tyrol, Italy, last September, when Laurent was two.
“There was a painting room in the hotel and we
