Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Harlequin with a Mirror
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Harlequin with a Mirror
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 709 (1979.87)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1923 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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100 cm (height) x 81 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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human figure; Commedia dell’arte; Performing arts; theater; acrobat; circus
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Description:
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Initially intended as a self-portrait (as shown by x-rays), Harlequin with a Mirror combines three characters from the circus and the Commedia dell’arte that held a strong fascination for Picasso, and with which he identified: the two-cornered hat is a clear reference to Harlequin, the clothes are those of an acrobat, while Pierrot’s face conceals the artist’s identity. The solid figure of Harlequin, whose body takes up most of the composition, is evidence of a new artistic idiom inspired by the classical approach of the great masters, which Picasso had adopted after his visit to Italy in 1917. Europe’s interwar art scene was dominated by a return to classical ideas; later in 1923 Picasso returned to "curvilinear" Cubism. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PICASSO-TBM-HWM-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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