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This vibrant self-portrait portrays the artist as a painting within a painting. As he had so often done before in his late work, Picasso presents himself here in the dandified guise of a musketeer or cavalier from the 17th Century. With long curls, débonaire moustache and goatee beard, the unmistakeably piercing eyes of Picasso peer directly at the viewer from the centre of this imaginative self-portrait.
Throughout the 1960s and until his death, Picasso was obsessed with the theme of the artist and the model. In a long series of paintings that followed on from one another, Picasso concentrated on three themes: self-portraiture in the guises of sailor, musketeer, clown; the nude model (his wife Jacqueline), or alternatively, the two of them together, the artist and his muse caught up in the act of lovemaking or in the process of creating a painting.
In the present work, Picasso depicts himself as a self-portrait; his square head forming a canvas resting on an easel with a somewhat phallic still-life and another canvas resting in front of it. Executed in garish red, orange and yellow, this striking image of Picasso in 17th Century disguise caught on one of his own canvases is a self-portrait of himself as an artist defined by his own art. In this sense this remarkable self-portrait is reminiscent of a similar device used by one of Picasso's heroes, Velasquez, in his famous portrait Las Meninas.
Throughout the 1960s and until his death, Picasso was obsessed with the theme of the artist and the model. In a long series of paintings that followed on from one another, Picasso concentrated on three themes: self-portraiture in the guises of sailor, musketeer, clown; the nude model (his wife Jacqueline), or alternatively, the two of them together, the artist and his muse caught up in the act of lovemaking or in the process of creating a painting.
In the present work, Picasso depicts himself as a self-portrait; his square head forming a canvas resting on an easel with a somewhat phallic still-life and another canvas resting in front of it. Executed in garish red, orange and yellow, this striking image of Picasso in 17th Century disguise caught on one of his own canvases is a self-portrait of himself as an artist defined by his own art. In this sense this remarkable self-portrait is reminiscent of a similar device used by one of Picasso's heroes, Velasquez, in his famous portrait Las Meninas.