This drawing, like many others made at the beginning of Picasso's stay at Gósol, a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees, did not result in a canvas. However, the idea of male nudity was carried through in other paintings, and this sheet suggests that Picasso was considering a work that would contrast the Ages of Man. The anonymous adolescent reappears frequently in work made at Gósol, while the elder figure bears the features of Josep Fondevila, Picasso's aged and patient innkeeper. Although several drawings show Fondevila nude, it is not known whether Fondevila posed for them or simply inspired them.
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Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): Picasso
[Würthle & Sohn, Vienna, until 1922; sold on February 5, 1922, for Fr. 500, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1939–82, inv. 39.1702; his bequest to MMA)
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Gary Tinterow inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 10, 94–95, no. 32, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, p. 94.
Sabine Rewald inObsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. New York, 2018, pp. 89, 95–96, 127, no. 43, ill. p. 104 (color).
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1921
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