The Three Dancers

The Three Dancers is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, painted in June 1925. It is an oil on canvas, 84.8 by 56 in . The painting shows three dancers, the one on the right being barely visible. A macabre dance takes place, with the dancer on the left having her head bent at a near-impossible angle. The dancer on the right is usually interpreted as being Ramon Pichot, a friend of Picasso who died during the painting of Three Dancers. The one on the left is claimed to be Pichot’s wife Germaine Gargallo with the one in the centre being Gargallo’s boyfriend Carlos... Casagemas, also Picasso’s friend . Casagemas shot himself after failing to shoot Gargallo, twenty-five years before Pichot’s death, and the loss of two of his best friends spurred Picasso to paint this chilling depiction of the love triangle. Picasso painted this in Paris after a trip to Monte Carlo with his wife, ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. His friend Pichot's death combined with the anniversary of his other friend Casagemas' death caused Picasso to paint this.
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