1913, Pablo Picasso, Man with a Guitar -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Both of these large paintings [this one and Man with a Mandolin] began as easel-size works that Picasso proceeded to enlarge along the bottom edge, almost doubling their height. A photograph of the painter Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) posing in Picasso's studio with a mandolin next to the already extended but still unfinished Man with a Mandolin documents this two-step process, as do the horizontal seams visible at midpoint in the two paintings. William Rubin (1927–2006), a Picasso scholar who produced the initial study of the Field commission in 1989, proposed that the pair represented a new approach to the odd-size wall areas of Field's library after he became dissatisfied with the 1910 panels. Rubin argued that by retaining the scale of the earlier works but departing from the exact wall measurements prescribed by Field, Picasso was able to produce panels of "more harmonious and workable proportions."
1913, Pablo Picasso, Man with a Guitar -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Both of these large paintings [this one and Man with a Mandolin] began as easel-size works that Picasso proceeded to enlarge along the bottom edge, almost doubling their height. A photograph of the painter Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) posing in Picasso's studio with a mandolin next to the already extended but still unfinished Man with a Mandolin documents this two-step process, as do the horizontal seams visible at midpoint in the two paintings. William Rubin (1927–2006), a Picasso scholar who produced the initial study of the Field commission in 1989, proposed that the pair represented a new approach to the odd-size wall areas of Field's library after he became dissatisfied with the 1910 panels. Rubin argued that by retaining the scale of the earlier works but departing from the exact wall measurements prescribed by Field, Picasso was able to produce panels of "more harmonious and workable proportions."