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1933

Sculptor and Two Sculpted Heads

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Here a sculptor gazes at a bust resembling the plaster heads that Picasso made of Marie-Thérèse Walter, his lover, at the château of Boisgeloup. The bust rests on top of a second sculpture, one of Hercules, complete with furrowed brow and unruly hair—creating a link between Picasso’s own work and that of the ancient world.

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