Self-Portrait "Yo"

Pablo Picasso

1900 · Ink and essence on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

In connection with, or soon after, his first solo exhibition at the principal meeting place of the Barcelona avant-garde, the bohemian tavern Els Quatre Gats, Picasso made a set of small caricatures of the prominent members of the informal club. This self-portrait announces the eighteen-year-old as a mature artist working in a sophisticated Art Nouveau style.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Date

1900

Medium

Ink and essence on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Raymonde Paul, in memory of her brother, C. Michael Paul, 1982