Three Graces, 1965.411

Three nude women stand in a close embrace, with one seen from the back and two facing forward in a classical arrangement. To the left, a winged Cupid is partially visible, and the entire scene is framed at the bottom by two large, symmetrical palm fronds. The drawing uses soft charcoal or chalk to define the rounded volumes and idealized forms of the figures.

In the Neoplatonic tradition of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, the Three Graces represented the 'unfolding' of the divine triad and the cycle of liberality: giving, receiving, and returning. This specific scene belongs to the narrative of Cupid and Psyche, which Renaissance philosophers interpreted as an allegory for the human soul’s purification and ascent to the divine.