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View source →Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
Pablo Picasso, 1910
Technical Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92 × 65 cm (36.2 × 25.6 in)
Style
Analytic Cubism
Decade
1910s
About This Work
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard is organized through the dense, interlocking planes associated with Analytic Cubism. Rather than isolating a face against a stable background, the painting distributes the sitter's features across a web of muted forms, making recognition depend on the accumulated rhythm of forehead, brow, jaw, and surrounding space. The work asks the viewer to reconstruct a likeness from fragments, so portraiture becomes a study in perception as much as an image of an individual.
Dated 1910, this oil on canvas is cataloged here as an Analytic Cubist portrait of the dealer Ambroise Vollard. Its 92 × 65 cm format and compressed palette support the work's emphasis on structure over conventional modeling. The catalog identifies the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts as the holding institution, but an exact public object page has not yet been verified; the general museum route is retained for transparency, and a mismatched reproduction has been removed pending a source-confirmed image.
Current Location
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Public Collection — Open to visitors
Visit museum website →Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
$30–50 million (est.)
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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