Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1968
Size: 162 x 130 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
In Picasso"s universe, the musketeer could be a painter, musician, smoker, or voyeur, but never a fighter. Picasso"s dashing soldiers of fortune are ultimately absurd, cartoonish figures whose amorous exploits are more comically libidinous than the sexually predatory behaviors of some of the artist"s previous male incarnations.In this composition the expansive figure of the musketeer takes center stage, while the nude at his side seems incidental. Nearly all the musketeers Picasso painted in the two months leading up to this work are single, centralized figures, similarly attired, usually cross-legged, and smoking long clay pipes.
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