Picasso: 1904 - 1939, Portraits (with Some Degree of Realism)

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Picasso's move to Paris in 1904 coincided with rising public access to works on paper by old master and 19th-century artists through museum exhibitions and new means of reproduction. Inspired by Ingres, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and Degas, as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities, Picasso produced virtuoso drawings as independent works in a variety of materials (pen and ink, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, and gouache) and subjects (the couple, mother and child, and the harlequin family).

Portrait of Sebastia Junyer-Vidal

Pastel on Paper

Madeleine, 1904

Oil on Cardboard

Max Jacob, 1907

Portrait of Manuel Pallares, 1909

Gunner Guillaume de Kostrowitzky, 1914

Ink and watercolour on paper 

Self-Portrait (Profile), 1921

L'Enfant, 1921

The Classical Head, 1922

Bust of a Woman, Arms Raised, 1922

"Femme dans un fauteuil (Olga)," 1922

Woman in White, 1923

Oil, water-based paint, and crayon on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Olga Koklova, Portrait of Picasso's First Wife, 1923

Woman Seated in an Armchair, 1923

Oil on Canvas

The Lovers, 1923

Woman in the Blue Veil, 1923

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Madame Olga Picasso, 1923

Oil on Canvas

Portrait of Paul Picasso, Pablo Picasso's son. 1923

Picasso's Mother, 1923



Woman in White, 1923



Paul As Harlequin, 1924
Oil On Canvas
Musee Picasso, Paris

Head of a Woman, 1924

Woman with Yellow Hair, 1931

Le Repos  (The Repose, 1932)

Bust of Woman, 1936

Oil on Canvas

Marie-Therese Walter, 1936

Marie-Therese Walter, 1937



Dora Maar with a Crown of Flowers, 1937

Portrait of Maya (Pastel), 1938

Genevieve Laporte, 1951-53

Jacqueline Rocque, 1954

"Femme dans un Fauteuil," 1956 

Oil on canvas

Bust of a Woman with a Hat, 1962