The Old Guitarist Cubism Spain

© 2018 Manor of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Club (ARS), New York

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Engagement:

belatedly 1903–early 1904

Artist:

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

About this artwork

Pablo Picasso made The Erstwhile Guitarist while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Bluish Catamenia (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a common cold, monochromatic bluish palette, flattened forms, and emotional, psychological themes of human being misery and alienation related to the work of such artists as Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. The elongated, angular figure of the blind musician also relates to Picasso's interest in Spanish art and, in particular, the nifty 16th-century artist El Greco. The epitome reflects the twenty-two-year-sometime Picasso'due south personal struggle and sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden; he knew what information technology was like to be poor, having been most penniless during all of 1902.

Status

On View

Section

Modernistic Art

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Championship

The Onetime Guitarist

Place

Spain (Artist'southward nationality)

Date

1903–1904

Medium

Oil on console

Inscriptions

signed, l.r.: "Picasso"

Dimensions

122.9 × 82.6 cm (48 three/8 × 32 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1926.253

Copyright

© 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Extended data about this artwork

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