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Picasso Le Dejeuner sur herbe #1267937

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Picasso   Le Dejeuner sur  herbe #1267937
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Framed stone lithograph by Picasso. </em></td>
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Framed stone lithograph by Picasso.



To understand a thing we normally pick it up, hold it up to different lights, feel it, possibly taste it and experience it from different angles. It is as if that thing is the sum of all these relative positions. About an idea we sometimes say, "Let me drive it around the block a few times." Or, as Picasso himself put it: 'I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through all kinds of passes, I like to take my pictures through all kinds of variations.'

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe may have started as a homage to Manet but Picasso transformed it into a homage to Cézanne as well. The male figures in Manet's painting have shed their clothes. Manet was arguably the first painter to have set the literal flat picture plane with its coloured brushmarks in tension with the illusion of real solid objects in three dimensions. The lessons he learnt from Manet and Cézanne can be seen in the way Picasso makes figures vacillate between silhouettes and spatial constructions (we could easily imagine reconstituting them in three dimensions). In Cézanne's Bathers series it was his habit to define the figures in their setting all at once, so that they are simultaneously adjusted to one another and adapted the whole. In using a restricted range of colours, Picasso also alternatively draws and paints, fusing the figures to their setting.

While employing this well-established landscape tradition Picasso reaches further back to the feelings evoked by Ancient ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Mint</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:see description</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Mourlot</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:22</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:20</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weight:3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Title:Picasso Le Dejeuner sur herbe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Brooklyn, New York</td></tr>
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