©Pablo Picasso - Mother and child 1902

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Mother and child 1902

Mother and child 1902
112x97cm oil/canvas
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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From Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge:
Following his visit to the Saint-Lazare prison-hospital, an institution for Parisian prostitutes with venereal disease, Picasso produced a number of paintings of destitute mothers embracing their small children. This is the largest of this group of works dating from the artist’s “Blue Period” (1901–4); they unite contemporary social concerns with an iconic Christian theme. The mother’s attenuated limbs speak to Picasso’s close study of the work of earlier artists, particularly El Greco.