Three Musicians

Pablo Picasso · Fontainebleau, summer 1921

This is Three Musicians, painted at Fontainebleau in the summer of nineteen twenty-one. Many people read the three figures as a coded reunion — Picasso himself alongside two friends he had lost, the poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 6' 7" x 7' 3 3/4" (200.7 x 222.9 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 513: Moulin Rouge, Portrait of Mme Zamaron

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Homage to J. S. Bach, Green Violin (Grüne Geige), Crusader Hotel Sauce Pots

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair