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Three Musicians

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Large Synthetic Cubist oil by Pablo Picasso (1921). Three Commedia dell'arte figures — Harlequin, Pierrot, and a monk — assembled from flat geometric planes of vivid color against a dark ground. One of Picasso's largest and most accomplished Cubist canvases. MoMA, New York.

Scholarly Significance

Synthetic Cubist masterwork; expands Picasso cluster into the 1920s phase.

Notes

·Painted in Fontainebleau, summer 1921, alongside its twin version now in Philadelphia.
·The hidden dog under the table is visible only on close inspection — a characteristic Picasso wit.
·Synthetic Cubism: flat cut-paper-like planes replace the fractured Analytic Cubist facets of 1910–1912.
·The canvas marks the culmination of Picasso's Cubist figurative work; his subsequent 1920s work moves toward Neoclassicism alongside.
·Harlequin was Picasso's consistent persona throughout the 1910s–1920s.