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.