This oil painting Night Fishing at Atibes is a well executed and accurate reproduction of Pablo Ruiz Picasso’s oil on canvas art work Night Fishing at Antibes: Originally created in 1939. Today this oil painting is part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is instantly recognized around the world: As is much of this prolific artists major works.

The inspiration for this oil painting came from the night fishermen who netted and speared their catch by the light of acetylene lamps: Off the shore of Antibes in Southern France. The lamps would attract the fish to the surface and it would be then that they would be captured by the fishermen.

The vision is somewhat mocking, sarcastic: Although at the same time colorful and whimsical. The people are depicted as grotesque, inane and dim witted in character. Night Fishing at Antibes was completed on the eve of the Second World War and at the time, was not received well by the critics. Perhaps they felt that the artist should be more politically portentous at the time.

Picasso was among the greatest painters of the twentieth century and his art works are greatly sought after. This hand painted oil on canvas reproduction is of the best quality and would make a prominent focal point wherever it was hung. Indeed, this is A Picasso!