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Pablo Picasso — Buste de Mousquetaire
Pablo Picasso

Buste de Mousquetaire

"Buste de Mousquetaire" is a bold and expressive oil painting on panel by Pablo Picasso, depicting a musketeer figure rendered in the artist's signature fragmented Cubist style. Rich, vibrant colors and dynamic, angular forms deconstruct the subject's bust into a powerful interplay of shapes and perspectives. The work reflects Picasso's late-period fascination with historical and theatrical archetypes, reimagined through his fearlessly inventive visual language.

Medium
oil on panel

🔨 Auction Lot

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

May 14, 2015

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Pablo Picasso, Buste de Mousquetaire

"Buste de Mousquetaire" is a bold and expressive oil painting on panel by Pablo Picasso, depicting a musketeer figure rendered in the artist's signature fragmented Cubist style. Rich, vibrant colors and dynamic, angular forms deconstruct the subject's bust into a powerful interplay of shapes and perspectives. The work reflects Picasso's late-period fascination with historical and theatrical archetypes, reimagined through his fearlessly inventive visual language.

Medium
oil on panel
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Dramatic Mood, Cubism, Bold Colors, Male Artist, Musketeer, Blue And Brown Tones, Oil On Panel, Portrait, Spanish Artist, Warm Tones, Master Artist, Figurative, Fragmented Forms

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Collected by

Sebastián In Situ, Richard Caswell, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo