©Пабло Пикассо - На пляже 1937

Guernica 1937 Leaning woman 1937 Minotaur is wounded 1937 On the Beach 1937 Portrait of Dora Maar 1937 Portrait of Dora Maar 1937 Portrait of Dora Maar 1937
Пабло Пикассо - На пляже 1937

На пляже 1937
129x194см масло, цветной карандаш и мел на холсте
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
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From Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum:
During the early months of 1937 Pablo Picasso was responding powerfully to the Spanish Civil War with the preparatory drawings for Guernica and with etchings such as The Dream and Lie of Franco, an example of which is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. However, in this period he also executed a group of works that do not betray this preoccupation with political events. The subject of On the Beach, also known as Girls with a Toy Boat, specifically recalls Picasso’s Three Bathers of 1920. Painted at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre near Versailles, On the Beach is one of several paintings in which he returns to the ossified, volumetric forms in beach environments that appeared in his works of the late 1920s and early 1930s. On the Beach can be compared with Henri Matisse’s Le Luxe, II, ca. 1907–08, in its simplified, planar style and in the poses of the foreground figures. It is plausible that the arcadian themes of his friendly rival Matisse would appeal to Picasso as an alternative to the violent images of war he was conceiving at the time.
Lucy Flint