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View source →Pablo Picasso, August 13–15, 1944
Medium
Brush and black ink and gray wash, with scraping and touches of pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
50 × 28.8 cm (19 11/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1940s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Head of Young Boy as a Pablo Picasso brush and ink, dated August 13–15, 1944, in Brush and black ink and gray wash, with scraping and touches of pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper. Picasso executed this drawing in his Paris studio in 1944, when the city had become a battlefield during World War II. The subject has been identified as a young French resistance fighter who was active during the last days of the war.
Head of Young Boy is grouped under Wartime Period for gallery navigation using the date published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. This period label provides high-level art-historical orientation and does not supersede the primary collection record. The institutional credit line is: Bequest of Florene May Schoenborn.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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