Child with a Dove

Pablo Picasso, 1901

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Child with a Dove portrays a child holding a white bird against a spare interior setting. The concentrated figure and restrained palette place it near Picasso’s early transition toward the Blue Period, while the small, vulnerable subject invites readings of innocence and care without requiring the dove to carry a single fixed meaning. Because the previously attached image depicted another work, this catalog record now uses a source-directed fallback until a correctly licensed, current-holder image can be confirmed.

The work had been in Britain since 1924 and was displayed publicly there for decades. A 2013 BBC report records that it had been sold for a reported £50 million, was subject to a temporary UK export bar, and was expected to leave for Qatar after no British institution raised the required funds. No direct current-holder object page was available during this audit, so the catalog does not present the National Gallery as its location or claim a confirmed public collection. The record remains transparent about this unresolved collection status.

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