©Pablo Picasso - The Poet 1911
The Poet 1911
131x89cm oil on linen
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:
Like The Accordionist in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Poet was painted during the summer of 1911, when Pablo Picasso was working in close association with Georges Braque in the French Pyrenees town of Céret. Similar in style and composition to Braque’s contemporaneous Man with a Guitar (Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York), this canvas epitomizes the moment in the development of Analytic Cubism when the degree of abstraction was so extreme that objects in the painting are almost unrecognizable.
Lucy Flint