Man with a Lollipop

Pablo Picasso

1938 · Oil on paper, mounted on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Picasso turned the youth in the drawing of the same title (MMA 1999.363.68) into the weather-beaten old man seen in this painting. Given the artist's predilection for the sexual and the macabre, and as an astute reader of Freud, he was perhaps poking fun at those who, late in life, revert to childlike pleasures or seek substitutes for erotic ones.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Date

1938

Medium

Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998