The work Night Fishing in Antibes is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso in the summer of 1939

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 The work Night Fishing in Antibes is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso in the summer of 1939. Picasso was living in France during the Spanish Civil War, where he had been living since 1904. He spent the summer of 1939 in a small southern French town, Antibes, where he painted this work.

At the center is a boat with two fishermen spearing fish by the light of two gas lamps. This central motif is framed by others: at the right we see two girls standing on the breakwater, one of the girls is holding onto her bicycle while licking an ice-cream cone. At the upper left we can recognize the old town of Antibes; in the center above there is a bright moon in the sky. The work displays a range of colors that has never before appeared in Picasso's paintings: dark blues and violets are contrasted with various shades of green, and this curious dark triad is brightened by a few yellow accents - which gives it a ghost-like quality.

This painting is exceptional in Picasso's work, both as a nocturnal scene and for its ghostly colors; it is also unusual in that the artist had rarely before at-tempted to combine figure and landscape - a combination which is particularly convincing here. The freedom of the composition is in curious contrast with the rigorous architecture of Guernica, so that at first sight the work seems a brilliant improvisation. But closer scrutiny reveals that it, too, has been carefully constructed and organized, and that in its details it recalls many earlier paintings. Like Three Musicians, this work sums up and at the same time marks the end of a period.

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