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Photography
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Three Women at the Fountain
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Pablo Picasso
Spanich, 1881 - 1973
Three Women at the Fountain
1921
25 x 19 1/8 inches (63.5 x 48.5 cm)
Pastel on wove paper
© 2002 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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The three statuesque women depicted in this pastel drawing have faces and costumes borrowed from Greek art, but Picasso portrays them with oddly exaggerated arms and hands. Their forms, emphasized by black contour lines, convey both grace and monumentality.
Gift of Miss Ima Hogg and Other Trustees of the Varner-Bayou Bend Heritage Fund
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