e, the only indication of any three-dimensional space is a small fruit basket in the foreground.
             Although the truth is uncertain, even the tiny detail of this fruit basket may be another attempt of Picasso to break away from earlier artists. Containing grapes and two apples, the fruit basket sits on either a white table just in front of the ladies. While the bowl, coupled with the women's stares, serves to engage the viewer in his work, Picasso also might mean for the still life to mock earlier artists. While it used to
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