©Pablo Picasso - The Abduction of Sabines 1962

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The Abduction of Sabines 1962

The Abduction of Sabines 1962
oil/canvas
Private Collection
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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Painted when he was eighty-two, this is Picasso’s last major statement about the horrors of war, perhaps inspired by the Cuban missile crisis. Here, Picasso transforms a familiar subject from the art of the past-the story of early Romans who, suffering a shortage of marriageable women, invited the neighboring Sabines to Rome and then carried off all their young women.