Pablo Picasso was a tough nut to crack for some photographers. Although the American Irving Penn (1917-2009) was already highly recognized, Picasso did everything possible to prevent him from taking a portrait, even though his portrait is one of the Malaga-born artist's most iconic. It is also one of the stars of the major retrospective that the Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation is dedicating to Penn at its space in the port of A Coruña, with some 170 photographs. Picasso had arranged to meet Penn at his summer home, La Californie. But when the photographer and his assistant arrived and rang the doorbell, no one answered. Penn didn't give up and asked the assistant to jump over the fence to see if he could see the artist. And so he did, but Picasso wasn't foolish either, telling Penn he only gave him ten minutes and covering himself with a sweater as if it were a cape.