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1903 (ca.), Pablo Picasso, Head of a Beggar [ink] -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the special exhibition label: One source for the bearded, gaunt, and dramatically modelled men that appear in Blue Period works between 1903 and 1904 is El Greco’s The Tears of Saint Peter (around 1600; Museu del Cau Ferrat, Sitges, Spain), a painting Picasso studied. The painting here is a version of that work. Picasso renders the dishevelled man with folded arms in the drawing at left with patches of brown ink that resemble the bold areas of light and shadow in the El Greco work. The figure in profile in the drawing at right is like El Greco’s St. Peter: both exhibit agony in their strained facial expressions and tense necks.
1903 (ca.), Pablo Picasso, Head of a Beggar [ink] -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the special exhibition label: One source for the bearded, gaunt, and dramatically modelled men that appear in Blue Period works between 1903 and 1904 is El Greco’s The Tears of Saint Peter (around 1600; Museu del Cau Ferrat, Sitges, Spain), a painting Picasso studied. The painting here is a version of that work. Picasso renders the dishevelled man with folded arms in the drawing at left with patches of brown ink that resemble the bold areas of light and shadow in the El Greco work. The figure in profile in the drawing at right is like El Greco’s St. Peter: both exhibit agony in their strained facial expressions and tense necks.