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The Three Dancers (French: Les Trois Danseuses[1]) is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, painted in June 1925. It is an oil on canvas, 84.8 by 56 in (2153 by 1422 mm). [2] [edit] Description The painting shows three dancers, the one on the right being barely visible. A macabre dance takes place, with the dancer on the left having her head bent at a near-impossible angle. The dancer on the right is usually interpreted as being Ramon Pichot, a friend of Picasso who died during the painting of Three Dancers. (Some critics believe it could well be Picasso’s wife Olga Khokhlova.[3]) The one on the left is claimed to be Pichot’s wife Germaine Gargallo with the one in the centre being Gargallo’s boyfriend Carlos Casagemas, also Picasso’s friend [4]. Casagemas shot himself after failing to shoot Gargallo, twenty-five years before Pichot’s death, and the loss of two of his best friends spurred Picasso to paint this chilling depiction of the love triangle. [edit] Background Picasso painted this in Paris after a trip to Monte Carlo with his wife, ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. His friend Pichot’s death combined with the anniversary of his other friend Casagemas’ death caused Picasso to paint this. At this time, Picasso was attracted to André Breton’s Surrealism movement and it was also an influence.[5] In 1926 it appeared in Breton’s work Le surréalisme et la peinture (Surrealism and Painting). Others link Three Dancers to Picasso’s failing marriage to Khokhlova.[6] Its caption at the Tate Gallery gives some insight into the background of the painting: “ The jagged forms of Three Dancers convey an explosion of energy. The image is laden with Picasso’s personal recollections of a triangular affair, which resulted in the heart-broken suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. Love, sex and death are linked in an ecstatic dance. ” [7] It is owned by the Tate Gallery, London, having been purchased by it in 1965, and is currently on display as part of the Tate Modern’s ’Poetry and Dream’ exhibition.[8] The purchase was facilitated by Picasso’s friendship with Roland Penrose who was a trustee of the Tate at that time. [edit] References 1. ^ Picasso called it Les Trois Danseuses (French) despite being a Spanish citizen, and the painting is occasionally called this, the original title (see [9]), as well as its English translation. Picasso lived in France and French titles for his paintings were not uncommon (see Garçon à la pipe and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, for instance). 2. ^ Three Dancers at Artchive 3. ^ Three Dancers at everything2.com 4. ^ The Guardian ’s Arts Feature, 7 July 2001 5. ^ The Guardian ’s Arts Feature, 7 July 2001 6. ^ Tate Gallery: The Three Dancers 7. ^ Tate Gallery: The Three Dancers 8. ^ web.org.uk - The Three Dancers [hide]v · d · ePablo Picasso Periods Blue (1901–1904) · Rose (1904–1906) · African (1907–1909) · Cubism (1910–1919) Pablo picasso 1.jpg Lists of works 1889–1900 · 1901–1910 · 1911–1920 · 1921–1930 · 1931–1940 · 1941–1950 · 1951–1960 · 1961–1970 · 1971–1973 Artworks Boy Leading a Horse · Chicago Picasso · Don Quixote · Dora Maar au Chat · Femme aux Bras Croisés · Garçon à la pipe · Guernica · Jacqueline · La Lecture · Le Rêve · Les Demoiselles d’Avignon · Les Noces de Pierrette · Maya with Doll · Nude, Green Leaves and Bust · Nude in a Black Armchair · The Old Guitarist · Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto · Portrait of Suzanne Bloch · Reading the Letter · Sylvette · The Three Dancers · Three Musicians · The Weeping Woman · Woman in Hat and Fur Collar · The Actor · The Dream and Lie of Franco · The Charnel House · Partners Fernande Olivier (with Picasso from 1904 to 1911) · Eva Gouel (with Picasso from 1912 to her death in 1915) · Olga Khokhlova (first wife from 1918 to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) · Marie-Thérèse Walter (affair in 1927–1935, mother of Maya) · Dora Maar (1936–1944) · Françoise Gilot (1944–1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) · Geneviève Laporte (affair during the 1950s) · Jacqueline Roque (1961–1973, second wife) Family Paloma Picasso · José Ruiz y Blasco Colleagues Georges Braque · Julio González · Max Jacob Museums Château Grimaldi · Museu Picasso · Musée Picasso · Museo Picasso Málaga See also Surviving Picasso · Fundación Picasso Wikimedia Wiktionary-logo-en.svg Picasso at Wiktionary · Wikibooks-logo.svg Picasso at Wikibooks · Wikiquote-logo.svg Picasso at Wikiquote · Wikisource-logo.svg Picasso at Wikisource · Commons-logo.svg Picasso at Commons · Wikinews-logo.svg Picasso at Wikinews Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Dancers"