Studies of a Nude and Two Heads (verso)

1920

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman

  • Dimensions

    sheet (folded in half): 27.3 x 21.3 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1981.41.2.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zervos, Vol. IV, no. 69

  • Copyright

    © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Associated Artworks

This painting consists of geometric shapes and lines that form an abstract representation of two people. One person on the right is mostly red and covered with small black and green rectangles, while the other person has stripes of yellow and red, resembling a harlequin costume. The people have abstracted features made of geometric shapes in different bright colors, and some of them overlap in strange ways. The background is made of squares of white, pink, and teal, while other shapes outline the people in gray and brown.

Pierrot and Harlequin (recto)

Pablo Picasso

1920

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Charles. B. Goodspeed, Chicago [later Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman 1902-1980]; gift 1981 to NGA

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Picasso y el teatro: Parade, Pulcinella, Cuadro Flamenco, Mercure, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1996-1997, no. 124, repro.

1997

  • Le Miroir Noir: Picasso, Sources, Photographiques 1900-1928, Musée Picasso, Paris, 1997, fig. 207.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 41.

Inscriptions

in graphite: 3 / [Bionie?]

Wikidata ID

Q64618771

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