id: 135434
accession number: 1958.43
share license status: Copyrighted
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Head of a Boy, 1905–6. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Possibly tempera on board; sheet: 24.6 x 18.6 cm (9 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.43 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Head of a Boy
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creation date: 1905–6
creation date earliest: 1905
creation date latest: 1906
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creditline: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: Possibly tempera on board
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Spanish
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Daix and Boudaille XV.7
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 24.6 x 18.6 cm (9 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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description: board, laid down on wood and cradled
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inscription: signed, lower left, in paint: Picasso / 905
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Expressionism and Related Movements
opening date: 1939-01-26T05:00:00
Expressionism and Related Movements. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 26-February 28, 1939).
title: Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art
opening date: 1965-01-24T05:00:00
Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (January 24-March 7, 1965); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 28-May 16, 1965); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 14-August 22, 1965).
title: Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family
opening date: 1970-12-19T05:00:00
Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (December 19, 1970-March 1, 1971).
title: In Memoriam - Pablo Picasso, 1881 - 1973
opening date: 1973-04-10T04:00:00
In Memoriam - Pablo Picasso, 1881 - 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 10-May 7, 1973).
title: Small Paintings from Famous Collections
opening date: 1981-04-04T04:00:00
Small Paintings from Famous Collections. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (April 4-June 7, 1981).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
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: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde
opening date: 2012-02-21T00:00:00
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 21-June 3, 2012).
title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Picasso Before 1907: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association. Knoedler Galleries, New York (October 15 - November 8, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-10-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '20 Years in the Evolution of Picasso, 1903 - 1923. Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York (November 1 - November 20, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-11-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Gertrude Stein [1874-1946], Paris
date: by 1907-?
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Horst Bohrmann [1906-1999], Berlin
date: ?-?
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Jacques Doucet [1853-1929], Paris
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(Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH)
date: ?-1937
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Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1937-1957
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1958-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Dumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 94, cat. no. 66
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Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 1: Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906. Paris: Éditions 'Cahiers d'art,' 1932.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 135, xlvii, no. 303
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20 Years in the Evolution of Picasso, 1903-1923. Exh. Cat. New York: Jacques Seligmann, 1937.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 4
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Picasso Before 1907: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association. Exh. Cat. New York: Knoedler Galleries, 1947.
page number: Mentioned: no. 27
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In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 28
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Chessex, Jacques, and Francis Ponge. Dessins de Pablo Picasso: époques bleue et rose. Lausanne: Mermod, 1960.
page number: Mentioned: p. 74; Reproduced: no. 25
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Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art, 1880-1960: Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: plate 92
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UCLA Art Council. Years of Ferment; The Birth of Twentieth Century Art 1886-1914. [Los Angeles]: [UCLA Art Council], 1965.
page number: Reproduced: P. 37, no. 42
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Sutton, Denys and Paolo Lecaldano. The Complete Painting of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 108, no. 256
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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
Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 91, 166, plate 39
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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. New York: Rizzoli, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 444-445, 880, no. 1231; Reproduced: p. 445
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Small Paintings from Famous Collections. Cincinnati: Taft Museum, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: p. 13
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Daix, Pierre, Georges Boudaille, and Joan Rosselet. Picasso 1900-1906: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Neuchâtel: Editions Ides et Calendes, 1988.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 294, no. XV.7
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Richardson, John. A Life of Picasso. Vol. 1, 1881-1906. New York: Random House, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 324
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Turner, Evan H., ed. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 153
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Rivero, Núria. Picasso, 1905-1906: From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol. Exh. Cat. Barcelona: Museu Picasso, in association with Electa, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p. 264
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Geelhaar, Christian. Picasso: Wegbereiter und Förderer seines Aufstiegs 1899-1939. Zürich: Palladion, 1993.
page number: Mentioned: p. 26; Reproduced: p. 25
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Mailer, Norman. Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 203
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DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 7, pp. 228-229, 296; Reproduced: p. 229
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DeGrazia, Diane. "The Evolution of a Collection: Drawings in Cleveland." Master Drawings 38, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 255
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Belloli, Lucy. "Los Paintings beneath Picasso's La Coiffure." Metropolitan Museum Journal 40 (2005): 151-161.
page number: Mentioned: p. 156; Reproduced: p. 158
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Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 240, fig. 3, no. 6.6
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Bishop, Janet C., et al. The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Exh. Cat. San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2011.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 119, no. 294
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Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973: The Rose Period, 1905-1906. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 201
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