Las Meninas by Pablo Picasso

Las Meninas by Pablo Picasso (1957)
“If someone want to copy Las Meninas, entirely in good faith, for example, upon reaching a certain point and if that one was me, I would say..what if you put them a little more to the right or left? I’ll try to do it my way, forgetting about Velázquez. The test would surely bring me to modify or change the light because of having changed the position of a character. So, little by little, that would be a detestable Meninas for a traditional painter, but would be my Meninas.”
-Pablo Picasso
Las-MeninasLas Meninas (The Maids of Honour) by Diego Velázquez (1656)
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