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Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Harlequin (Project for a Monument), 1935
oil on canvas
support: 24 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (61.59 x 50.16 cm); framed: 33 3/4 x 29 1/4 x 1 inches (85.725 x 74.295 x 2.54 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1941
RCA1941:23
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collection of Christian Zervos, Paris;Valentine Gallery, New York, by 1940;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, December 31, 1941
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This information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms
During the late 1920s Pablo Picasso became interested in designing imaginary “monuments” in which inventive and surrealistic figures are envisioned as gigantic sculptures. Here he revisits the Harlequin as a lighthearted figure, his cap perched jauntily on his head. Lemon yellow, violet, orange-red, and green and muted tones of blue, rose, and chocolate brown are framed in heavy black lines and set against a background of silvery white. “Cubism,” said Picasso, is “an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life. A mineral substance, having geometric formation, is not made to transitory purposes, it is to remain what it is and will always have its own form.”
Label from Picasso: The Artist and His Models, November 5, 2016–February 19, 2017
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