Mousquetaire picasso biography

Late in life, Picasso represented himself in his art in the guise of the adventurous, virile musketeer.

Mousquetaire picasso biography

Perhaps nowhere is this better exemplified than in his 1967 masterpiece Mousquetaire et nu assis — offered in London on 27 February

Executed in lavish and passionately applied brushstrokes, Mousquetaire et nu assis  is among the first of the triumphant depictions of musketeers that appeared in Pablo Picasso’s work in 1967.

Accompanying this iconic figure is a seated nude with dark hair and large, all-seeing eyes. This is Jacqueline, the artist’s last great love, muse and wife, whose presence permeated every female figure painted in this final chapter of Picasso’s life.

‘Picasso’s late career was defined by sensuous paintings in which he cast himself as the virile artist alongside his voluptuous lover,’ explains Keith Gill, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale