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Pablo Picasso  (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)

Date:
1902
Medium:
Ink and wax crayon on a paper card
Dimensions:
5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (13.3 x 9.2 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1975
Accession Number:
1976.201.29
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This artwork is not on display

  • Description

    This is one of dozens of drawings that Picasso made on the backs of business cards for the cotton factory owned by the family of his friends Juan and Sebastián Juñer-Vidal. It shows him developing an inscrutable, hieratic pose that he would use several times in paintings made over the next three years.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed in black ink, lower right: ¦Picasso¦

    Inscription: Inscribed on verso in blue pencil, at left edge (in another hand): WCA 2077 [upside down]

  • Exhibition History

    Balingen, Germany: Museum of Modern Art and Cultural Centre Balingen, June 20 - September 24, 2000. ¦Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form¦. Cat. no. 24, illus. in color.

    France: Musee National Picasso, October 15, 1998 - January 15, 1999. ¦Picasso: 1901 - 1909¦.

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