Self-Portrait with Palette
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Geography:
Made in Europe
Date:
1906Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
36 3/16 x 28 7/8 inches (91.9 x 73.3 cm) Framed: 46 1/2 × 38 5/8 × 4 inches (118.1 × 98.1 × 10.2 cm)Copyright:
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
European Painting
1950-1-1Credit Line:
A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1950
Made in Europe
Date:
1906Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
36 3/16 x 28 7/8 inches (91.9 x 73.3 cm) Framed: 46 1/2 × 38 5/8 × 4 inches (118.1 × 98.1 × 10.2 cm)Copyright:
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 166, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor
Accession Number:1950-1-1Credit Line:
A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1950

A replica of this work is featured in Inside Out, a series of outdoor exhibitions throughout the region.
Label:
This self-portrait casts the twenty-five-year-old painter as a hardy, athletic figure and sets the stage for the legend of Picasso as the artistic champion of the twentieth century. In preparatory drawings the artist included a brush in his right hand, but he removed it in this final version. Its absence attests to the notion that creative genius is not simply manual dexterity but the expression of an inner vision, here symbolized by the artist’s intense, staring eyes.
This self-portrait casts the twenty-five-year-old painter as a hardy, athletic figure and sets the stage for the legend of Picasso as the artistic champion of the twentieth century. In preparatory drawings the artist included a brush in his right hand, but he removed it in this final version. Its absence attests to the notion that creative genius is not simply manual dexterity but the expression of an inner vision, here symbolized by the artist’s intense, staring eyes.
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