Figures
In the tradition of
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
(Spanish, 1881 - 1973)
Date1904
MediumPen and ink
DimensionsOverall: 5 13/16 × 5 1/2 inches (14.76 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. David M. Lighton
Object number56-113
On View
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Exhibition HistoryBonjour Picasso!, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 22, 2012-February 10, 2013, no cat., as Figures.
With simple, flowing lines Picasso animates the figures of two children and the conversation between a man and a woman. He made this little drawing soon after his arrival in Paris. At that time, Picasso lived in a decrepit studio building at 13, Rue Ravignan, the address indicated here. The building, nicknamed Le Bateau-Lavoir (laundry barge), for the way it creaked and swayed on stormy days, would later be home to other young, impoverished artists arriving in Paris.
Gertrude Lighton (née Woolf, 1876-1961), Kansas City, MO, by 1956;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.
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