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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973). Tete de Jeune Homme, 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 24 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. (62.1 x 47.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 39.18_SL1.jpg)
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973). Tete de Jeune Homme, 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 24 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. (62.1 x 47.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.39.18.jpg)
Tete de Jeune Homme
Pablo Picasso
European Art
This sculptural head, densely built up in layered marks of grease crayon, is a prime example of Pablo Picasso’s classicizing works of the late 1910s through the early 1920s. His works in this idiom—concurrent with his more abstracted Cubist imagery—were inspired in part by his encounter with ancient Roman statuary in Italy in 1917, as well as by earlier artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The introspective visage of the young man in this drawing is likely based on the head of the marble Farnese Antinous in Naples. Although some critics rebuked Picasso for seeming to abandon modernism for what many considered a depleted historical language, the artist made no such distinctions, stating: “To me there is no past or future in art. . . . The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.”
This style can also be understood as part of a broader artistic reaction to the upheaval and mechanized slaughter of the First World War. In contrast to Otto Dix’s graphic postwar imagery, on view nearby, Picasso’s serene drawing reflects the shift toward the humanistic, idealizing forms seen in many works during this period.
This style can also be understood as part of a broader artistic reaction to the upheaval and mechanized slaughter of the First World War. In contrast to Otto Dix’s graphic postwar imagery, on view nearby, Picasso’s serene drawing reflects the shift toward the humanistic, idealizing forms seen in many works during this period.
MEDIUM
Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper
DATES
1923
DIMENSIONS
24 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. (62.1 x 47.4 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Lower right in graphite: "Picasso"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
39.18
CREDIT LINE
Carll H. de Silver Fund
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1938, provenance not yet documented; by November 1938, acquired by Louis Carré and Rouland Balay of Paris, France; 1939, purchased from Louis Carré and Rouland Balay by the Brooklyn Museum.
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973). Tete de Jeune Homme, 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 24 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. (62.1 x 47.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 39.18_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 39.18_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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