Pablo Picasso, Las Meninas at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona.
Throughout his career Picasso engaged in an open dialogue with masterpieces from earlier times. He made an exhaustive analysis in the form of variations on iconic works such as Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez (1957), Women of Algiers by Eugene Lacrois (1954-55), Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe by Edouard Manet (1950-62).
Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656.
In the summer of 1957 he set about the task of 'copying' Las Meninas 'in my own way, forgetting about Velazquez', as he put it. The result was fifty eight works painted between 17 August and 30 December: in forty four of them he breaks down and recomposes Velasquez's painting; two are free interpretations (The Piano and a Portrait of Jacqueline Roque); nine feature the dovecote he had installed on the balcony of his studio (to see some of those go here); and three are small oils in which he captures the landscape of the Bay of Cannes that he could see through his studio window.
Most of these copies are to be found in the Picasso Museum. I was fascinated by them. In the same way as I have been fascinated by the original, and the fascination it has held for so many artists over the centuries. When I did my art course I tried to understand why all these artists have been obssessed with this painting. You can see some of the results of my research here
Las Meninas, 17 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Maria Augustina Sarmiento ?
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Infanta Margarita Maria
This was the only copy of the whole painting. The rest are studies of individual characters and they are below.
Las Meninas {Maria Agustina Sarmiento}, 20 and 26 August 1957, (oil and grease pencil strokes on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 21 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 22 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 26 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 27 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 27 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 28 August 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 4 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 4 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 5 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 14 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Augustina Sarmiento], 10 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Agustina Sarmiento and Infanta Margarida Maria], 17 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 17 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 18 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 2 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 3 October, 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco], 9 October, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, [Maria Augustina Sarmiento], 9 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Augustina Sarmiento and Infanta Margarita Maria], 10 October, (oil on canvas)
Las Meminas [Maria Agustina Sarmiento], 10 October, 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Agustina Sarmiento], 10 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
The Piano, 17 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Nicolasito Pertusato, 24 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Usabel de Velasco, Maria Barbola i Nicolasito Pertusato], 24 October, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco, Maria Barbola i Nicolasito Pertusato], 24 October, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco, Maria Barbola i Nicolasito Pertusato, 24 October, oil on canvas)
Las Meminas [Isabel de Velasco i Maria Barbola], 8 November 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meminas [Infanta Margarida Maria i Isabel de Velasco], 15 November 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas 15 November 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas 17 November 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Agustina Sarmiento], 17 November 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco], 17 Nobember 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco], 17 Nobember 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco], 17 Nobember 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 4 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas {Infanta Margarita Maria], 6 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 17 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas, 19 September 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Maria Agustina Sarmiento], 10 October 1957, (oil on canvas)
Las Meninas [Isabel de Velasco], 17 Nobember 1957, (oil on canvas)
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