Picasso model
 

(not pikassoved just pikassofil)

Everyone is familiar with dozens of portraits of civilian wives Picasso (and official-Khokhlova). But Picasso's long time writing the same nameless models - the elderly, women and children. Curious who they were, these men, whose portraits adorn the best museums ... may be in the books had long been described, but I'll share my personal little "discovery".
In blue and pink period, Picasso often used as a model of a teenage boy - The boy with a horse (Washington), Boy with a dog (Hermitage), Boy with a Pipe ... and much more. And considering the girl on the ball (Pushkin), I see that a strong adult athlete, acrobat - it is the same boy! Specifically, of 12-year-old Picasso took only his head and his body placed a man. And there is a sketch where an acrobat, with his head, but in a painting by Pablo left his body and his head was replaced.
Because of this, an acrobat a pretty ostranennym, unearthly, as the proportions change. Funny ...

Interesting ...
A Boy with a pipe he's thinking?
In fact, it seems.

Yes, of course, only the hair is not trimmed with the clippers. Same person, same slightly stretched upward upper part of the head. Sorry, the horse in New York, in Washington, wandering circus, where he was in the background. Proportions Pablo little changes, here at the Hermitage, he generally small. And Pablo is not completely reworks proportion, it changes their part, because of this, the hero gets a strange, mysterious, properly developed, is not it .. like strongman to child's head, and a little boy (the dog), but inside an adult ... .

Picasso at the time there was no money in the model so that it is not necessary bylo.On could draw.

t e-A, you are in doubt whether the boy?
  Picasso invented it myself?

He mog.On could.

He knew how much, but he wrote from life, including all its poluabstraktsii. This house had all the necessary accessories. Is a vase by Picasso could not write out of your head? Nevertheless, there were a variety of vases and lots of rubbish ... Khokhlova demanded all the unnecessary (in her opinion) rubbish thrown away. The result you know.
Moreover it has repetitions of the same still life. Staged and writing. The next day, again wrote a new ...


I do not spetsknizhki by Picasso with such details, but the work I see that this is so true ... Boom wait spec-owners of monographs on Picasso.

I agree with Paul, and he could invent. Maybe once, a prototype was, but all present a picture of the image has already been "purified", generalized, not on location. Therefore, the person almost always-polufas a profile, and the hero gets "strange, mysterious." Because Picasso wrote, not a real person in a particular state, but is itself a state, self-absorbed, alienation, impermeability and god knows what else. I pikassoved, this is my personal opinion, based not on knowledge but on feelings.

dispute is very interesting and principled-invent or transform the head of a real model?
In the end, you can write a letter to the Fund or the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, and find out about the boy.
But here is what a museum in the explanation to one of Picasso's Harlequin -

http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/c...mpb10-941.html
Served as a model for Harlequin Leonid Massine, Diaghilev troupe first dancer ...

In my opinion, quite another person and, incidentally, in the "mystery" behind the same boy with a pipe. Maybe just because of the reality of the image.

tasha, of course ... Well it was much later ... I just do that in our store is just a Harlequin. And the only museum in the notes written, with whom it is written Harlequin. Sabartesa, his friend, Picasso, too, often wrote anonymously.

Blue period is approximately 1,905 per year. Repeat Picasso was nisch-on food is not enough. Blue period, no one wanted to buy. The old man he wrote the memoirs of his father. See chronology.
One thing and another portrait of Harlequin-many of them had = this picture, and schego made irrelevant.

Found Multi base of quotations:
"The model for the young harlequin is probably the same one who posed for The Organ-Grinder (XII. 22)" (cf. Daix & Boudaille 1966)

"Picasso modeled the same person in one of his early sculptures: Head of a Jester, bronze, H. 41 cm., Cast for Ambroise Vollard in 1905 (ZI 322)" (cf. Daix & Boudaille 1966).

Picasso at this time lived not very far from the Paris circus, and it deeply impressed him.

Daix-compiler of the official catalog of Picasso and the largest special on a blue-pink period. If he writes that Picasso was a model, and he wrote them on the Multi base again, then that was it. And who they were, the real circus, or the kid next door, probably did not know.
For myself I consider the issue closed.

Just watch when he arrived in Paris 1, 2, and 3 times where he worked with whom he lived, how old he was, it's interesting. Then the questions disappear.

Pavel, it's all we all know. Just Your assumption that the boy, which Picasso painted the right and left, behind and in front and close, and the distance is pure artistic way, and not a model sounds more and more fantastic. 3D program if the door has not been. And is the model-luxury? take first-encountered a beggar or a friend, neighbor, that's your model. And he has already spoken with a very cool people-in this time he painted a portrait of Gertrude Stein.
My question was not from the very beginning, I just spent a little time to find a pair of quotes from world specialists, as, of course, I do not regret, learned many new things.