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Three Musicians - Pablo Picasso

Three Musicians

1921

Painting  
79 x 87 in

Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic Cubist style. One version is currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City; the other is found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Each painting features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are generally believed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, respectively. Apollinaire and Jacob, both poets, had been close friends of Picasso during the 1910s. However, Apollinaire died of the Spanish flu in 1918, while Jacob decided to enter a monastery in 1921. Retrieved on 3.2.2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians

PROVENANCE: Currently Owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. © 2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

$450,000

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