Pierrot and Harlequin (recto)

1920

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink and gouache on folded 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.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zervos, Vol. IV, no. 69

  • Copyright

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

Associated Artworks

Studies of a Nude and Two Heads (verso)

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

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1996

  • Picasso y el teatro: Parade, Pulcinella, Cuadro Flamenco, Mercure. Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1996-1997, 98, 115, 161, 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.

2007

  • Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 March 2007 - 29 July 2007.

2011

  • Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition, The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011-2012, no. 68.

Bibliography

1932

  • Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. 33 vols. Paris, 1932-1978.

1968

  • Cooper, Douglas. Picasso Theatre. New York: 1968, pl. 283.

1980

  • Carmean, E.A., Jr. Picasso: The Saltimbanques. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 66, fig.103.

1996

  • Picasso y el teatro: Parade, Pulcinella, Cuadro Flamenco, Mercure. (Exh. cat. Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1996.) Barcelona, 1996: 98, 115, no. 124.

2001

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

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and black ink: Picasso

Wikidata ID

Q64618755

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