Maya With Her Doll Analysis

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Maya with her doll was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1938 in the style of surrealism, during the Neoclassicist and Surrealism period. Picasso used oil to make the painting. It is currently in the art gallery .Musee Picasso, France, Paris.
This painting is of Pablo Picasso’s daughter, Maya, while she was holding her doll. This painting is not an abstract picture; you can make out a face and a form of a child with a doll. There is not much of a historical background about this painting, except for the fact that it was stolen from their home, then later recovered by the

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