This is one of dozens of drawings that Picasso made on the backs of business cards for the cotton factory owned by the family of his friends Juan and Sebastián Juñer-Vidal. It shows him developing an inscrutable, hieratic pose that he would use several times in paintings made over the next three years.
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Inscription: Signed in black ink, lower right: Picasso
Sebastián Juñer Vidal, Barcelona (ca. 1902–at least 1932; probably acquired from the artist); by descent to Carles Juñer Vidal, Barcelona; [Knoedler & Co., New York, until 1960; sold in 1960 to Payson]; Joan Whitney (Mrs. Charles Shipman) Payson, Manhasset, New York (1960–d. 1975; her bequest to MMA)
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection," September 13–October 12, 1980, no. 64.
Tokyo. Isetan Museum of Art. "From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection," October 17–December 9, 1980, no. 64.
Kunstmuseum Bern. "Der Junge Picasso: Frühwerk und Blaue Periode," December 6, 1984–February 17, 1985, no. 163.
Paris. Musée Picasso. "Picasso 1901–1909: Chefs d'oeuvre du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," October 21, 1998–January 25, 1999, unnumbered cat. (ill. on back cover).
Stadthalle Balingen. "Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses des Menschen; Arbeiten auf Papier, 1895–1972," June 20–September 24, 2000, no. 24.
Liège, Belgium. Salle Saint Georges. "Pablo Picasso," October 6, 2000–January 31, 2001, not in catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 27–August 1, 2010, no. 19.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "XS," December 6, 2011–April 15, 2012, no catalogue.
"Fiestas de la Merced." El Liberal 2, no. 540 (October 5, 1902), p. I, ill.
Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 1, Works from 1895 to 1906. Paris, 1932, p. 72, no. 152, ill.
Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer. Picasso antes de Picasso. Barcelona, 1946, p. 152, ill.
José Camón Aznar. Picasso y el Cubismo. Madrid, 1956, pp. 539, 728, fig. 405.
Maria Teresa Ocaña inPicasso, 1905–1906: De l'epoca rosa als ocres de Gósol. Exh. cat., Museu Picasso. Barcelona, 1992, p. 23, ill.
Magdalena Dabrowski inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 52–53, no. 19, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, p. 53.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1921
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