Seated Figure

Pablo Picasso

1902 · Ink and wax crayon on a paper card · Modern and Contemporary Art

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.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Date

1902

Medium

Ink and wax crayon on a paper card

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1975