Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Mother and Child
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP19
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
1907 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
81 cm (height) x 60 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; human figure; motherhood; children; Proto-Cubist
Description:
Painted in Paris in summer 1907, at the same time Picasso was working on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, shows the influence of African masks. Considered part of his African Period and Proto-Cubist. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-MC -A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Mother and Child