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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Harlequin

p. 40 "...spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."

Harlequin: varigate with spots or marks; a clown;

Harlequin (adj., verb, noun)

The wide-ranging exhibition at the Met covers the key areas Picasso was famed for, from harlequins to classic bathers and Cubist tabletops to delicate paper ...

This gathering of street performers is the tour de force of the young Picasso's Rose Period, with its harlequin self-portrait, fat clown, slim children and ...
Posted by Lowell at 11:00 AM
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