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ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)

TITLE OF WORK: Pulcinella with a guitar in front of the curtain, or Massine saluting (Pulcinella avec une guitare devant le rideau, or Massine saluant)

TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper

DATE: 1920

COMMENTS: "Pulcinella", ballet with songs in one scene, by the Ballets Russes. Music by Pergolese arranged by Igor Stravisnky, story by S. Diaghilev after a manuscript dated 1700 discovered by himself in Naples

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Spain

DANCE FORM: classical ballet