Related Picassos - The Embrace, 1901

	The Embrace, 1901
If you've found this site useful, we'd really appreciate a small donation to help with the hosting costs. Thanks!	The 1934 Drawing and its Correspondences in Picasso's Oeuvre The Embrace, 1901 Picasso made many studies and paintings on the theme of the lovers' embrace, this later developed into the more meaningful composition, "La Vie". The embrace is in part a pregnancy motif and it reappears in a complex and astonishing way in the 1934 drawing. Around the sketchily rendered embracing figures in the drawing are an array of hidden features which include, a snarling mouth, a flame, an open vulva and a laterally inscribed number "13", the number of the "Death" card in the Tarot whose presence indicates the death of the lovers' relationship and possibly, the death of their unborn child. © Mark Harris 1996, 1997 Related Picassos The Burial of Casagemas (Evocation), 1901 The Embrace, 1901 La Vie, 1903 Phallus and Nude, 1903 The Mackerel, 1903 Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Curtain Design for Parade, 1917 Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery Costume Studies for Pulchinella, 1920 The Three Dancers, 1925 The Three Dancers in depth La Statuaire, 1925 The Studio, 1925 Crucifixion, 1930 Crucifixion Studies of the 1930's The Vollard Suite Classical Prints of the 1920's and 1930's The Dream, 1932 Le Meurtre, 1934 and The Death of Marat, 1934 Minotaur with Javelin, 1934 Minotauromachy, 1936 Picasso's illustrations of Paul Eluard's poem, "La Barre d'Appui", 1936 Guernica, 1937 Guernica in depth Picasso's Secret Guernica Night Fishing in Antibes, 1939 Curtain Design for Romain Rolland's Play,"Le 14 Juillet", 1936 Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936 Erotic Compositions of the 1950's and 1960's Peace, 1952 Picasso's Bestiary Next Section: Themes of the 1934 Drawing

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