©Pablo Picasso - A blue acrobat 1929

Painter and his model 1928 The Studio 1928 Working painter observed by a nude model 1928 A blue acrobat 1929 Bather 1929 Head 1929 Large nude in red armchair 1929
A blue acrobat 1929

A blue acrobat 1929
162x130cm oil/canvas
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne
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During the winter of 1929–30 Picasso revisited the subject of acrobats from his Rose Period, and he painted six variations on the theme. The chronological order of the series is established by the dates the artist wrote on the back of his pictures and by related drawings. Blue Acrobat (Paris, Musée national d’art moderne), which is missing from Zervos’s catalogue raisonné, was the first picture painted, in November 1929. Following this were Acrobat, dated 18 January 1930 (Paris, Musée Picasso); the present work and its counterpart, painted on wood the following day; The Painter, completed on 20 January; and Composition of 21 January, which concluded the series.