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Self-Portrait

1906
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 619
Picasso painted this self-portrait after spending the summer of 1906 in Gósol, a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees. The stay has become synonymous with a decisive new direction in his style, one that moved toward simplified forms with a decidedly archaic and sculptural appearance. This work, painted as the artist turned twenty-five (about the same time he completed his portrait of Gertrude Stein, MMA 47.106), was followed immediately by his large Self‑Portrait with Palette (Philadelphia Museum of Art), perhaps a pendant to Gertrude Stein.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Self-Portrait
  • Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
  • Date: 1906
  • Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on honeycomb panel
  • Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (26.7 x 19.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
  • Object Number: 1999.363.59
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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