id: 135076 accession number: 1958.12 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.12 updated: 2024-04-23 11:00:37.147000 The Donkey Driver, 1902. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Black chalk on brown wove paper; sheet: 26.1 x 19.8 cm (10 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.12 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: The Donkey Driver title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1902 creation date earliest: 1902 creation date latest: 1902 current location: creditline: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: black chalk on brown wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - Spanish type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Zervos I.136 --- CREATORS * Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world. --- measurements: Sheet: 26.1 x 19.8 cm (10 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, in brown ink, lower right: Picasso 1902 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: 20th Century Master Drawings opening date: 1963-11-06T05:00:00 20th Century Master Drawings. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 6, 1963-January 6, 1964); Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (February 1-March 15, 1964); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 6-May 24, 1964). title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-16T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966). title: Pablo Picasso: Fruhwerk und Blaue Periode (Pablo Picasso: Early Work and the Blue Period) opening date: 1984-12-06T05:00:00 Pablo Picasso: Fruhwerk und Blaue Periode (Pablo Picasso: Early Work and the Blue Period). Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (organizer) (December 6, 1984-February 17, 1985). title: Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle (Picasso: Pastels, Paintings, Watercolors) opening date: 1986-04-05T05:00:00 Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle (Picasso: Pastels, Paintings, Watercolors). Künsthalle Tubingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany (April 5-June 1, 1986); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, Dusseldorf 1, Germany (organizer) (June 13-July 27, 1986). title: Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988 opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007). title: Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition opening date: 2011-10-04T00:00:00 Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition . National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (February 5-May 6, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Picasso. Kunsthaus Zürich (September 11 - October 30, 1932).', 'opening_date': '1932-09-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Santiago Laporta, Barcelona date: footnotes: citations: (Galerie Thannhauser, New York) date: by 1940-after 1946 footnotes: citations: (Wildenstein and Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.) date: after 1946-before 1958 footnotes: citations: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1958 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1932. page number: Mentioned: p. XLIV, no. 136; Reproduced: pl. 67 url: Picasso. Exh. Cat. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1932. page number: Mentioned: p. 17, no. 255 url: Cassou, Jean. Picasso. Translated by Mary Chamot. New York: Hyperion Press, 1940. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 146 url: Pellicer, A. Cirici. Picasso antes de Picasso. Barcelona: Iberia - Joaquin Gil, 1946. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pl. 125 url: Elgar, Frank and Robert Maillard. Picasso. Translated by Francis Scarfe. New York: Praeger, 1956. page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 97 url: Jardot, Maurice. Pablo Picasso Drawings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 153; Reproduced: pl. 3 url: Simon, Sidney and Emily Rauh. 20th Century Master Drawings. Exh. Cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963. page number: Mentioned: no. 99; Reproduced: pl. 1 url: Blunt, Anthony and Phoebe Pool. Picasso: The Formative Years, A Study of His Sources. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1963. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 125 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 196 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n220 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 195 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n219 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 241 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n261 Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. page number: Mentioned: pp. 319, 539, no. 807; Reproduced: p. 319 url: Glaesemer, Jüurgen. Der Junge Picasso: Frühwerk und Blaue Periode. Exh. Cat. Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1984. page number: Mentioned: 325, no. 166; Reproduced: p. 298 url: Spies, Werner. Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle. Exh. Cat. Tübingen: Kunstehalle Tübingen, 1986. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 16 url: Galassi, Susan Grace and Marilyn McCully. Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition. Exh. Cat. New York: Frick Collection, 2011. page number: Mentioned: pp. 93-95, no. 13; Reproduced: p. 94 url: The Picasso Project: Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973: The Blue Period, 1902-1904, Barcelona and Paris. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2011. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 31, no. 1902-080 url: --- IMAGES