Child with a Dove, Picasso
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| Author: | Pablo Ruiz Picasso |
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| Original Title: | L'enfant au pigeon |
| Type: | Painting |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1901 |
An intriguing fact about this work is that "Child with a Dove" was one of Picasso’s first paintings to be acquired in the United Kingdom, becoming a symbol of the bond between the young Spanish artist and the European public. For decades, it was part of the British public collection and became the subject of debate when its sale was announced in 2012, due to its great historical and emotional value. The painting, created when Picasso was only 20 years old, reveals the artist’s early maturity and anticipates the humanistic and emotional character that would define his later work.
The painting "Child with a Dove", painted by Pablo Picasso in 1901, belongs to the beginning of his Blue Period, a phase marked by melancholy and introspection. The work depicts a child holding a dove in his hands, an image of delicacy and purity that contrasts with the cool, muted tones of the background. The influence of late 19th-century French painting, especially that of Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, can be seen in the structure of the figure and in the use of color.
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ARTIST DATA
Pablo Picasso
| Full Name: | Pablo Ruiz Picasso. |
|---|---|
| Birth: | 1881, Spain. |
| Death: | 1973, France. |
| Style: | Academicism | Expressionism | Cubism | Modernism. |
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881 and showed exceptional artistic talent from a very young age. At the age of eight, he painted his first work, titled “The Yellow Picador”, where his remarkable ability to capture movement and expression was already evident. During his childhood and youth, Picasso mastered the academic rules of traditional painting with astonishing ease, standing out for his precision in form and color. This solid technical mastery became the foundation upon which, years later, he would build one of the most influential aesthetic revolutions of the 20th century: Cubism.
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