What would be the best art piece of Pablo Ruiz Picasso's Las Meninas ?
Answers
Explanation:
Las Meninas is a series of 58 paintings that Pablo Picasso painted in 1957 by performing a comprehensive analysis, reinterpreting and recreating several times Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. The suite is fully preserved at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and is the only complete series of the artist that remains together. This is a very extensive survey work which consists of 45 performances of the original picture, nine scenes of a dove,[1] three landscapes and a portrait of Jacqueline.
Las Meninas
Artist
Pablo Picasso
Year
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
194 cm × 260 cm (76 in × 100 in)
Location
Museu Picasso
Picasso himself understood this series as a whole and as such donated it to the museum in Barcelona in May 1968 in memory of Jaime Sabartés who died the same year. Picasso said to Sabartés in 1950: