Pablo PicassoSpanish, 1881–1973Boy Leading a Horse
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
The Museum of Modern Art
RoomMoMA, Floor 5, 502New York, United States
On public display.
- Checked
- 11 days ago
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Jeune garçon au cheval (English: Boy Leading a Horse) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was painted in Picasso's Rose Period from 1905 to 1906, when he was still a struggling artist living in Paris. The painting is a study for a much larger composition that Picasso never completed.
Particulars
- Accession number
- 575.1964
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 11 days ago
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Pablo Picasso
The whole life1895–1904 · Workplace
Barcelona
1901–1904
The Blue Period
The Blue Period began — somber paintings in blue-green tones with themes of poverty and sorrow; Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris.
1904
Move to Paris, Beginning of the Rose Period
Picasso settled in the Bateau-Lavoir residence in Montmartre; the sorrow of the Blue Period gave way to images of the theater and the circus — the Rose Period began.
1905
Meeting the Steins and Matisse
Picasso became a favorite of the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein; at one of Gertrude Stein's gatherings in 1905 he met Henri Matisse — a lifelong friend and rival.
1907
Meeting Georges Braque
Picasso met Georges Braque; together they became the founders of Cubism, a movement that rejected the traditions of naturalism.
May 1907
Visit to the Ethnographic Museum
At the Ethnographic Museum in Paris Picasso was struck by the masks of the peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Polynesia — an experience that influenced the formation of Cubism.
