Three musicians

The three musicians and dog conjure a bygone period of bohemian life, enjoyed here by Picasso in the guise of a Harlequin flanked by two figures who may represent poet-friends of the artist: Guillaume Apollinaire, who had recently died, and Max Jacob. The patterned flatness of the work is derived from cut-and-pasted paper, and stands in stark contrast to the sculptural monumentality of Picasso’s Three Women at the Spring, also painted in the summer of 1921. [Metropolitan Museum of Modern…

The three musicians and dog conjure a bygone period of bohemian life, enjoyed here by Picasso in the guise of a Harlequin flanked by two figures who may represent poet–friends of the artist's: Guillaume Apollinaire, who was recently deceased, and Max Jacob. The patterned flatness of the work is derived from cut–and–pasted paper, and stands in stark contrast to the sculptural monumentality of Picasso's Three Women at the Spring, also painted in the summer of 1921. [Oil on canvas, 200.7 x…

Fernand Léger French, 1881–1955 The Three Musicians 1944 (after a drawing of 1924-25; dated on painting 1924-44)

1920s art focused around the styles of cubism, surrealism, and dada, which were a marked departure from the styles of prior decades, much alike the culture.

Reproduction of Pablo Picasso's "Three Musicians" (1921). Cannot be gift-wrapped.