Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Arlequin à la guitare

细节

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Arlequin à la guitare
signed bottom right 'Picasso'
watercolor on paper mounted at the edges on board
13 x 9¾in. (33 x 24.8cm.)
Painted in 1917

来源

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York
Saidenberg Gallery, New York
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 19, 1986, lot 52
Saidenberg Gallery (acquired by the present owner, 1989)

出版

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1954, vol. 6 (Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5), no. 1340 (illustrated, pl. 159)
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue: From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 17-287 (illustrated, p. 84)

拍品专文

This watercolor is a study for the oil painting of the same title, done in Montrouge in December, 1917 (Zervos, vol. 3, no. 43). Picasso's use of a pointillist technique probably owes less to Seurat than to the more contemporary example of Severini, and divisionist brushwork first appears in the flattened, decorated surfaces of his synthetic cubist still-life paintings and papier collés done at the end of 1913 and in 1914. He used this technique in two major paintings of 1917: Femme en costume espagnole (La Salchichona) (Zervos, vol. 3, no. 45), painted in Barcelona and Le Repas des paysans, d'après Le Nain (Zervos, vol. 3, no. 96) done in Montrouge.