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View source →Pablo Picasso, 1900
Medium
Pastel on paper
Dimensions
59 × 35 cm (23.2 × 13.8 in)
Style
Early Modernism / Pastel
Decade
1900s
Made during Picasso’s first Parisian sojourn, this pastel compresses a couple into a vertical, nearly sculptural silhouette. The Picasso Museum Barcelona notes its forceful parallel brushstrokes, vibrant colour, and unusual vertical composition, qualities that make the embrace feel both physically close and visually unsettled rather than simply sentimental.
The Picasso Museum Barcelona dates the work to 1900 and records that it originally belonged to a larger composition later divided into fragments. Its curatorial account relates the pastel technique to Picasso’s interest in artists including Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, while locating the embracing-couple motif within a wider early sequence of Paris and Barcelona works.
Picasso Museum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Public Collection — Open to visitors
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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