©Pablo Picasso - The Abduction of Sabines 1963

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The Abduction of Sabines 1963

The Abduction of Sabines 1963
195x131cm oil/canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
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. Against a sunny background of blue sky and green fields, the overlapping forms of grotesquely distorted figures are compressed into the foreground space, the horses and soldiers trampling a woman and her child.