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Probably banged your girlfriend
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
Paint-ception
The one that got away
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The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
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Right before Cubism went off the rails
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Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
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Squares are people too
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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