©Pablo Picasso - Harlequin leaning 1901
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Harlequin leaning 1901
82x61cm oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
By 1901 Harlequin was a ubiquitous figure in popular culture. He usually carried a baton, or slapstick, and wore a black mask. However, Picasso gave his Harlequin a white face and ruffs: the attributes of Pierrot, the melancholy, cuckolded clown who inevitably loses his love, Columbine, to the nimble and lusty Harlequin. Many writers have suggested that the pensive mood of this picture and the series to which it belongs were the result of Picasso's brooding on the suicide of his friend Carles Casagemas, who, like Pierrot, was unrequited in love.