Gigantic stage curtain, Picasso, for "Parade" ballet
Picasso's "Spinario" or Woman with Thorn
Olga, Ballets Russes dancer Picasso married, 1918
Photo of Olga at the Hotel Minerva, Rome (Picasso's shadow presumably)
I am working all day on the sets and on making the costumes... I've also done many sketches and caricatures of Diaghilev, of [Russian artist Leon] Bakst, of Massine and of some ballerinas, [as if] amid the ruins of Pompeii. Pablo Picasso
Hellenistic statue, Boy with Thorn, versions in both Uffizi and Rome
Gigantic stage curtain, Picasso, for "Parade" ballet
