Las Meninas (Velazquez) 1957

Pablo Picasso's 1957 "Las Meninas (Velazquez)" is an oil on canvas reinterpreting Diego Velazquez's iconic 17th-century work. Picasso's Cubist style disassembles and reassembles the composition, fragmenting figures and space into geometric planes. The painting retains the original's central theme of the artist and his subjects, but Picasso uses a restricted palette of blues and greens to convey a sense of intimacy and introspection.