''The Four Little Girls'' (''Les Quatre Petites Filles'') is a play written in French by the painter

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

. It is the second of two full-length plays written by Picasso, the first being '' Desire Caught by the Tail''. Written between November 24, 1947, and August 13, 1948, it was published in 1949. In 1952 Picasso wrote a second version of the play using the same title. Both versions use a

stream of consciousness In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator. The term was coined by Daniel Oliver in 1840 in ''First L ...

narrative style, and many critics believe that Picasso never meant for the play to be staged, only read.

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1949 plays French plays Plays by Pablo Picasso {{1940s-play-stub