#Three Bathers Reclining by the Shore

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Three Bathers Reclining by the Shore, 1920

Pablo Picasso                                           

Description via The Metropolitan Museum of Art:  “This is the second in a pair of drawings executed on the same day at the fashionable resort of Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera. The foreground figure is a quotation of Ingres's Grande Odalisque (1814, Musée du Louvre, Paris). The American publisher Scofield Thayer bought the drawings soon after they were made. As Thayer intended to illustrate works from his collection in his magazine, The Dial, he favored drawings and pastels over paintings, which were difficult to reproduce accurately”

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