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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Arlequin et singe, 1918
Pencil on paper, signed lower right
9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in
The drawing of Harlequin here highlights the artist's assured, precise line. Unlike other artists, like Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso liked to illustrate scenes in the daily life of travelling performers and the circus. His Harlequins are alter egos, and a form of mise en abîme of his own character: deeply melancholic, yet simultaneously warm and sunny. All of Picasso's work is punctuated by the figures of the harlequin and the entertainer that recurs incessantly, always caught between dream and reality.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Andalusia and died in 1973 in Mougins. He was an iconic figure who became a virtual legend of modern art. A prodigious artist, he moved through the 20th century contributing his inimitable touch and ever-innovative eye to every great artistic movement of the century.
His early career was marked by the suicide of his close Catalan friend, Carlos Casagemas, in 1901. Picasso's deep shock over this tragedy was reflected in his work. He tackled dark, melancholic subjects in his paintings and drawings, intensified through the use of a palette of cool colours dominated by blues. During these years, Picasso was mainly interested in representing suffering and poverty.
He depicted beggars, blind people and scrawny, hard-eyed prostitutes.
In 1904, he began to use warmer colours in shades of ochre, and to represent warmer, happier subjects. His still figurative, realistic techniques and pencil line were similar but the symbolic content of his work became very different. This was largely due to his moving permanently to France.
After spending several short periods in Paris between 1900 and 1902, including for his exhibition in Ambroise Vollard's gallery, the young Picasso decided to live in the bubbling artistic ambiance of the early century, at the Bateau Lavoir.
Here he led a Bohemian life and formed friend
Arlequin et singe, 1918
Pencil on paper, signed lower right
9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in
The drawing of Harlequin here highlights the artist's assured, precise line. Unlike other artists, like Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso liked to illustrate scenes in the daily life of travelling performers and the circus. His Harlequins are alter egos, and a form of mise en abîme of his own character: deeply melancholic, yet simultaneously warm and sunny. All of Picasso's work is punctuated by the figures of the harlequin and the entertainer that recurs incessantly, always caught between dream and reality.
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Andalusia and died in 1973 in Mougins. He was an iconic figure who became a virtual legend of modern art. A prodigious artist, he moved through the 20th century contributing his inimitable touch and ever-innovative eye to every great artistic movement of the century.
His early career was marked by the suicide of his close Catalan friend, Carlos Casagemas, in 1901. Picasso's deep shock over this tragedy was reflected in his work. He tackled dark, melancholic subjects in his paintings and drawings, intensified through the use of a palette of cool colours dominated by blues. During these years, Picasso was mainly interested in representing suffering and poverty.
He depicted beggars, blind people and scrawny, hard-eyed prostitutes.
In 1904, he began to use warmer colours in shades of ochre, and to represent warmer, happier subjects. His still figurative, realistic techniques and pencil line were similar but the symbolic content of his work became very different. This was largely due to his moving permanently to France.
After spending several short periods in Paris between 1900 and 1902, including for his exhibition in Ambroise Vollard's gallery, the young Picasso decided to live in the bubbling artistic ambiance of the early century, at the Bateau Lavoir.
Here he led a Bohemian life and formed friend