Three Musicians (Picasso)

Three Musicians
Spanish: Los Tres Músicos
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Year	1921
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Synthetic Cubism
Dimensions	200.7 cm × 222.9 cm (79.0 in × 87.8 in)
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1949

Three Musicians
Spanish: Los Tres Mùsicos
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Year	1921
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Synthetic Cubism
Dimensions	204.5 cm × 188.3 cm (80.5 in × 74.1 in)
Location	Philadelphia Museum of Art. A.E. Gallitan Collection, 1952

Three Musicians, also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks, is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He painted two versions of Three Musicians. Both versions were completed in the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, in the garage of a villa that Picasso was using as his studio. They exemplify the Synthetic Cubist style; the flat planes of color and "intricate puzzle-like composition" giving the appearance of cutout paper with which the style originated. These paintings each colorfully represent three figures wearing masks. The two figures in the center and left are wearing the costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin from the popular Italian theater Commedia dell'arte, and the figure on the right is dressed as a monk.^[1] In one version, there also is a dog underneath the table.

Although both versions share the same subject, the darker version today is more famous than the other.^[2][1]