Stock Photo - Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians (1921), Museum of Modern Art, New York. Three Musicians is the title of aoil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.It was completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic Cubist style; the flat planes of colour and ""intricate puzzle-like composition"" echoing the arrangements of cutout paper with which the style originated. The painting features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are generally believed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, respectively. Apollinaire and Jacob, both poets, had been close friends of Picasso during the 1910s. However, Apollinaire died of the Spanish flu in 1918, while Jacob decided to enter a monastery in 1921.