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View source →Pablo Picasso, late 1904
Medium
Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions
36.9 × 26.7 cm (14.5 × 10.5 in)
Style
Blue Period Drawing
Decade
1900s
Watercolor and ink give this contemplative figure a quiet, inward concentration, with the sparse paper field intensifying the psychological stillness. Picasso's choice of watercolor and ink on paper shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.
MoMA dates the work to late 1904, allowing it to be read as part of the Blue-to-Rose transition without overstating a specific narrative meaning. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.
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2026 Estimated Value
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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