Wouldn’t it be interesting if this is the painting he has in his hands in this panel, and that’s why he’s able to recognize it? I could easily imagine that DD’s enhanced olfactory senses could tell that the canvas and pigments were aged and not a new forgery. Granted that to be a great forgery the painter would use period appropriate canvas and paints, natch. So still the scene doesn’t really hold up.

Or does it? Could Matt recognize the EXACT scent of the canvas, the EXACT scent of the combination of paints on that particular painting he’d seen years before?

But then again, he saw it when he had his eyesight back, and thus his enhanced sense of smell wasn’t working – it’s been well-established over the years, DD gains his sight, he loses his super-senses. So STILL the scene doesn’t hold up. LOL.

Daredevil’s mask has always been shown to follow the contours of his ears. Does this really make sense? No. But it’s pretty much a constant of how he’s drawn, hardly unique to this panel.

On one hand, I believe that Picasso’s painting, or many of them- might berecognizable, to some point, by touch: having seen a number of them in the Picasso Museum at Barcelona, I believe the strong, paint-loaded, drawing-like strokes actually present an image that would be easier to “follow” by touch than, say, a Rembrandt (not to say… a Pollock! XD)

Having said so… Matt strikes me as a great art connoisseur… of sculpture! but hardly of paintings, as you say.

In fact, my canon image of Matt’s relationship with Picasso is in the Secret Wars II issue, in which the Beyonder gives Matt his sight back: the day out with Glorianna in New York, with a VERY puzzled Matt staring at Picasso’s “Les Senyoretes del carrer d’Avinyó” while Glori cracks at his reaction is just priceless. I believe this is a good perception of Matt, whom I believe would have difficulty in appreciatting modern art if his sight came back.