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Pablo Picasso
The Chinese Chest of Drawers, 1953
Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and by the 1950s he had also become one of the most well known. Photo-essays in Life magazine, a full-length film, and retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Grand Palais in Paris were devoted to the artist and his work. Although he had long since departed from the hard abstraction of Analytic Cubism, this painting -- though decorative in tone -- retains the broken forms and skewed perspective that are characteristic of Picasso's oeuvre. |