Three Musicians - Signed Postcard

Signed postcard from the Spanish artist and leading figure in 20th-century art, who has signed his "Three Musicians" at the upper right corner and dated July 29, 1966, adding a flourish at the right. MOMA color postcard, 5.75 x 4 inches (14.8 x 10.5 cm). A very small, gently creased lower left corner; otherwise in very fine condition.

The Spanish-born son of a painter and art professor father, Picasso began his formal art instruction at an early age. By 1900, he had moved to Paris, the center of the art world at the time. There, between 1907 and 1908, Picasso and Georges Braque, inspired by the work of Cezanne, developed what became known as “cubism,” the visual representation by overlapping planes of three-dimensional objects onto a two-dimensional surface. Arguably modern art’s greatest achievement, this innovative style influenced everyone from Fernand Léger and Marc Chagall to Le Corbusier and Piet Mondrian. Perhaps the most famous cubist work is Picasso’s masterpiece, Guernica, depicting the April 26, 1937 bombing of the ancient Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. Exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and South America to raise funds for Spanish refugees, it raised Picasso’s international profile. In between tours, the painting resided in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which also hosted a major retrospective of his works in 1939, solidifying his place in the pantheon of modern art. 

Picasso’s Three Musicians, in New York’s MOMA’s collection, was painted in 1921 in Paris and features Picasso’s harlequin motif. It is considered a prime example of high Synthetic Cubism.  (17595)

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