I would be surprised if Picasso was the first to do this. If you play around with permutations of faces, it's probably in the first 1000 things you'd come up w

I would be surprised if Picasso was the first to do this. If you play around with permutations of faces, it's probably in the first 1000 things you'd come up with, if not the first 100. So while the answer could be yes, Occam's Razor implies it's no.