Picasso: Las meninas

"Through drawing and colour – for these were my weapons – I have sought to deepen knowledge of the world and of humankind, knowledge which every day would make us all freer. I have tried to say in my own way what I thought was most true, most fair, most good – and this was always, of course, the most beautiful.
Picasso


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Picasso: Las meninas. Oil on canvas. August 1957. 194 x 260 cm. Picasso Museum



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