MOSCOW, (REUTERS).- Russia’s influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement. Picasso paintings of bulging-eyed women and sculptures bearing his trademark triangular noses feature in a 240-piece collection of works by one of most prolific and dominant artists of the 20th century. The largest Picasso exhibit on Russian soil in over 50 years opened on Friday and it was the Russian influence on Picasso — by way of his Russian wife and access to her world — that excited those in the marble halls of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum near the Kremlin, which is housing the exhibit.