The Three Dancers from Private passions...Pablo Picasso@140

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Jonathan Jones, October 28 2019, ‘The Guardian’:

“...In modern times, Picasso coded every detail of his love life in his art, using it to celebrate and punish the women in his life. He even paid homage to the Renaissance cult of the art of love in a series of engravings of Raphael and his mistress La Fornarina. But in his violently carnal masterpiece, The Three Dancers, he tells a story of love gone wrong. Two of the figures represent his friends Ramon Pichot and his wife, Germaine Gargallo. The third is believed to be his youthful friend (and Gargallo’s lover) Carlos Casagemas, who killed himself over Gargallo..”