If you happen to come to the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm on a Monday it will be closed.
Not to worry - you will be able to enjoy art in taking a walk around the Museum's outdoor collection of fifteen works by prominent artists. Hidden behind the Museum we noticed first this sign
and then we found the two couples we could recognize from the Edouard Manet's (1832-1883) painting which is in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
Picasso (1881-1973) avoided the controversy Manet's painting created by showing them all in the nude!
During his lifetime Picasso made 27 paintings and 140 drawings all inspired by this paining by Manet.
For a sculptural interpretation he made small cardboard marquettes and was co-operating with Carl Nesjar who was able to translate these marquettes into large sculptures. Gravel and Concrete are the materials and it is known that Picasso was satisfied with the result. Carl Nesjar, then a young Norwegian painter, graphical artist and sculptor had met Picasso in Paris in the 1960s.
