 The Crucifixion itself is conspicuously absent, and there is no trace or shadow of its presence in the panels.Writing in 1996, Wieland Schmied noted that the three Furies have replaced Christ and the two thieves crucified on either side of him.The form of the Furies is borrowed directly from Picasso's late 1920s and mid-1930s pictures of biomorphs on beaches, in particular from the Spanish artist's "The Bathers" (1937).