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The Harvesters

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso. ‘The Harvesters’. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Madrid © Sucesión Pablo Picasso / De las reproducciones autorizadas, VEGAP, 2011

Category

Painting

Date

1907 (20th century)

Artist

Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Cultural background

Cubism

Original title

Los segadores

National Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Madrid
Madrid

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It is one of the most representative paintings in Pablo Picasso's work at the beginning of the 20th century.

Like other painters in his circle, Picasso was keen to find new techniques that would enable him to handle large compositions with numerous forms. His experiments produced four major canvases painted between 1906 and 1907: "The Harem", "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon", "The Peasants" and "The Harvesters". Whereas in the first two the characters are arranged within an enclosed space, suggesting sickness and degradation, in the last two the free movement of the figures within a rural environment suggests the opposite: health and harmony.

In terms of form, the figures in "The Harvesters" is quite different from "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", since Picasso was experimenting with an essentially two-dimensional approach, similar to Matisse's painting, but with more striking colours than the French painter.