Picasso shows a softer face in London

The artist's later statues and ceramics, on show at the Gagosian gallery's Mediterranean Years, reveal a tender family man

If you are in or visiting London this August and have not yet seen it, do not miss Picasso: The Mediterranean Years at the Gagosian gallery. No other current exhibition in London will enrich your day, your summer, or your life as much.

Picasso – so many things to so many people – shows yet another face to the world in this luxurious selection of works from the private holdings of his family. Here are "new" Picassos, and a new Picasso: the tender family man. A less enticing title might have been Picasso: The Retirement Years. I kept thinking of Marlon Brando playing with his grandson in the garden in The Godfather – the fearsome old Don putting orange peel in his mouth to entertain a child, a Picasso-like visual game if ever there was one.