Las Meninas | |
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Artist | Pablo Picasso |
Year | 1957 |
Type | Oil on canvas |
Location | Museu Picasso |
Las Meninas is a series of 58 paintings that Pablo Picasso painted in 1957 by performing a comprehensive analysis, reinterpreting and recreating several times Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez. The suite is fully preserved at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and is the only complete series of the artist that remains together. This is a very extensive survey work, which consists of 45 performances of the original picture, 9 scenes of a dove, [1] 3 landscapes and a portrait of Jacqueline.
Picasso himself understood this series as a whole, and as such gave them to the museum in Barcelona in May 1968, in memory of Jaume Sabartés, who died the same year. Picasso's famous phrase said to Sabartés in 1950:
If someone want to copy Las Meninas, entirely in good faith, for example, upon reaching a certain point and if that ona was me, I would say..what if you put them a little more to the right or left? I'll try to do it my way, forgetting about Velázquez. The test would surely bring me to modify or change the light because of having changed the position of a character. So, little by little, that would be a detestable Meninas for a traditional painter, but would be my Meninas.
— Picasso, 1950
# | Registry [2] | Title | Date | Format | size (cm) | Zervos XVII |
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1 | MPB 70.433 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 17/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 194 x 260 | 351 |
2 | MPB 70.434 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 20/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 | 353 |
3 | MPB 70.435 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento) | 20/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 46 x 37.5 | 352 |
4 | MPB 70.436 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 21/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 | 356 |
5 | MPB 70.437 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 22/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 33 x 24 | 354 |
6 | MPB 70.438 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 26/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 41 x 32,5 | 357 |
7 | MPB 70.439 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 27/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 40,5 x 33 | 355 |
8 | MPB 70.440 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 27/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 33 x 24 | 361 |
9 | MPB 70.441 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 27/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 33 x 24 | 359 |
10 | MPB 70.442 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 28/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 18 x 14 | 358 |
11 | MPB 70.443 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 28/08/1957 | Oil on canvas | 18 x 14 | 360 |
12 | MPB 70.444 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 04/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 35 x 27 | 365 |
13 | MPB 70.445 | Las Meninas (composició central) | 04/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 35 x 27 | 363 |
14 | MPB 70.446 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 04/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 46 x 37,5 | 364 |
15 | MPB 70.447 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 05/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 35 x 27 | 366 |
16 | MPB 70.448 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 06/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 41 x 32,5 | 367 |
17 | MPB 70.449 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 06/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 46 x 37,5 | 362 |
18 | MPB 70.450 | Els colomins | 06/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80 | 394 |
19 | MPB 70.451 | Els colomins | 06/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80 | 395 |
20 | MPB 70.452 | Els colomins | 07/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 33 x 24 | 398 |
21 | MPB 70.453 | Els colomins | 07/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80 | 396 |
22 | MPB 70.454 | Els colomins | 07/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 80 x 100 | No catalogat |
23 | MPB 70.455 | Els colomins | 11/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 129 x 97 | 397 |
24 | MPB 70.456 | Els colomins | 14/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80 | 399 |
25 | MPB 70.457 | Els colomins | 12/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80 | 400 |
26 | MPB 70.458 | Els colomins | 12/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 145 x 113 | 401 |
27 | MPB 70.459 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María) | 14/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 | 368 |
28 | MPB 70.460 | Las Meninas (conjunt sense Velázquez) | 15/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 129 x 161 | 369 |
29 | MPB 70.461 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento i infanta Margarita María) | 17/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 32,5 x 41 | 371 |
30 | MPB 70.462 | Las Meninas (conjunt sense Velázquez) | 17/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 129 x 161 | 370 |
31 | MPB 70.463 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 18/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 129 x 161 | 372 |
32 | MPB 70.464 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 19/09/1957 | Oil on canvas | 161 x 129 | 373 |
33 | MPB 70.465 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 02/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 161 x 129 | 374 |
34 | MPB 70.466 | Las Meninas (conjunt) | 03/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 129 x 161 | 375 |
35 | MPB 70.467 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco) | 09/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 65 x 54 | 377 |
36 | MPB 70.468 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento) | 09/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 65 x 54 | 376 |
37 | MPB 70.469 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento i infanta Margarita María) | 10/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 92 x 73 | 379 |
38 | MPB 70.470 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento) | 10/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 73 x 55 | 378 |
39 | MPB 70.471 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento) | 10/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 115 x 89 | 380 |
40 | MPB 70.472 | El Piano | 17/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 404 |
41 | MPB 70.473 | Las Meninas (Nicolasito Pertusato) | 24/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 61 x 50 | 382 |
42 | MPB 70.474 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco, María Bárbola i Nicolasito Pertusato) | 24/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 383 |
43 | MPB 70.475 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco, María Bárbola i Nicolasito Pertusato) | 24/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 384 |
44 | MPB 70.476 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco, María Bárbola i Nicolasito Pertusato) | 24/10/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 381 |
45 | MPB 70.477 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco i María Bárbola) | 08/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 385 |
46 | MPB 70.478 | Las Meninas (infanta Margarita María i Isabel de Velasco) | 15/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 386 |
47 | MPB 70.479 | Las Meninas (conjunt sense Velázquez) | 15/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 130 x 96 | 387 |
48 | MPB 70.480 | Las Meninas (conjunt sense Velázquez ni María Bárbola) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 35 x 27 | 388 |
49 | MPB 70.481 | Las Meninas (María Agustina Sarmiento) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 24 x 19 | 389 |
50 | MPB 70.482 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 24 x 19 | 392 |
51 | MPB 70.483 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 27 x 22 | 393 |
52 | MPB 70.484 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 24 x 19 | 390 |
53 | MPB 70.485 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco i Nicolasito Pertusato) | 17/11/1957 | Oil on canvas | 24 x 19 | 391 |
54 | MPB 70.486 | Paisatge | 02/12/1957 | Oil on canvas | 14 x 17,5 | 407 |
55 | MPB 70.487 | Paisatge | 02/12/1957 | Oil on canvas | 14 x 18 | 406 |
56 | MPB 70.488 | Paisatge | 02/12/1957 | Oil on canvas | 16 x 22 | 405 |
57 | MPB 70.489 | Retrat de Jacqueline | 03/12/1957 | Oil on canvas | 116 x 89 | 408 |
58 | MPB 70.490 | Las Meninas (Isabel de Velasco) | 30/12/1957 | Oil on canvas | 33 x 24 | 444 |
The Suite has been shown in the following exhibitions:
However, there are several works from theSuitethat have been part of other exhibitions. Here you will find the most relevant:
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