Displayed in this section are various hands and eyes made by Picasso, who related in a 1933 interview with his gallerist, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, how he had placed the palm of his hand in a ductile material that he then used as a mold for pouring the plaster.

Pablo Picasso The Flowers of Peace, 1958; Characterized by an intense display of color, this work innately conveys a sense of hope and unity. The bouquet forms a bond between two individuals symbolized by the two hands displayed within the piece.

Pablo Picasso (b. 1881; d. 1973) worked with sculpture from practically the beginning of his long career. For the Málaga-born artist, it was not a lesser medium but a form of expression on a par with painting, drawing, or engraving.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Picasso shows the left palm in an anatomically contorted position with the hand’s thumb and fingers perhaps oriented in reverse, unless the circles represent human knuckles rather thatn fingernails.

Inscription. upper left verso in graphite: As wide as possible / horizontal / Hold 8'; upper center verso in graphite: 28.5 x 20 / Moulage de la / main de Picasso 8/30 / en 1943 / a l'atelier des grands-Augustins; center verso in blue ink: Pic. Sc. 106 (underlined) / Conversations avec Picasso / No. 36 / (Edition anglaise No. 41); center verso: artist stamp

In The Blind Man’s Meal (50.188) from 1903, he uses a dismal range of blues to sensitively render a lonely figure encumbered by his condition as he holds a crust of bread in one hand and awkwardly grasps for a pitcher with the other.

Picasso’s eclecticism goes hand in hand with his ability to combine multiple sources. Although he trained in the academic tradition at the school known as La Llotja, in Barcelona, from the age of 13, he did not limit himself to the naturalistic forms and canonical subjects conventionally taught to art students at the time.

En esta sección podemos ver manos y ojos realizados por el artista malagueño, quien en 1933 contó, en una entrevista con su galerista, Daniel-Henry Kanhweiler, cómo colocó la palma de su mano en un material dúctil que luego le sirvió de molde para verter el yeso.

Feb 10, 2025 · Portrait of Mateau Fernández de Soto and Picasso’s Blue Period. Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto is emblematic of Picasso’s sombre Blue Period, hailed as a defining moment in his career. Nineteen-year-old Picasso had arrived in Paris from Spain in May 1901 for his first exhibition in the city, which opened at the gallery of the modern ...