Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 25
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Leaving the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900
Charcoal and coloured pencils on paper
18¾ x 24 inches / 47.6 x 62 cm
Signed on the lower right side: P Ruiz Picasso
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael,
but a lifetime to paint like a child."
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga
in October 1881. Here we see the
artist, aged 19, showing all the flair
and originality which culminated in
his early reputation as an avant-garde
artist.
This spontaneous and evocative
study shows the figures of Picasso
and his contemporaries Odette,
Ramon Pichot, Miguel Utrillo,
Carlos Casagemas and Germaine
Gargallo, leaving Paris’s Universal
Exhibition in 1900. Casagemas,
a constant companion of Picasso
during the latter’s formative years,
would shoot himself a year after this
work was completed following a
failed romance with Gargallo. The
event greatly affected Picasso, whose
work subsequently evolved into the
melancholy Blue Period.
Provenance
Galerie Käte Pearls, Paris, 1938
Thomas Laughlin, New York, circa 1938 (acquired from the above)
Michael Laughlin, Aiken, South Caroline, 1966 (inherited from the above)
Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1976 (acquired from the above in 1976)
Private collection, Japan
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Käte, Picasso, 1900 à 1910. Exposition de tableaux, aquarelles
et dessins, 1937, no. 1
Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, De Gaudí a Picasso :
El Modernismo Catalán, March-April 2010
Literature
Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time – The Twentieth Century, New
York, Talisman Books, vol. I, 1979, illustrated p. 2
John Richardson, Life of Picasso, New York, Random House, 1991, illustrated
p. 172
Exhibition Catalogue, Museu Picasso, Picasso i els 4 Gats. La clau de la
modernitat, Barcelona, 1995, no. 21, p. 154
Alan Wofsy, The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings
and Sculpture, Turn of the Century 1900-1901, San Francisco 2010,
no. 1900-267, illustrated p. 74
Enrique Mallen (ed.), Online Picasso Project, Sam Houston State University,
1900-05, no. 00202, (accessed 2011)
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This painting is accompanied by a certificate of
authentication kindly issued by the ........