Vase von Picasso

Pablo Picasso repeatedly looked to art historical predecessors for inspiration, and between the 1940s and the 1960s, he made variations of work by other well-known artists, including Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, and Diego Velázquez. He was particularly fascinated by Édouard Manet’s iconic modernist painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)” (1863), which itself harks back to work by Renaissance artists Raphael and Titian. Picasso created approximately 200 paintings, dra