Garçon à la pipe
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Boy with a Pipe ( Original title: Garçon à la pipe ) is a 1905 oil painting by Pablo Picasso arisen, which marks the transition from the Blue Period to the Rose Period Picasso by he included pink to blue shades. The dimensions of the painting are 100 × 81.3 cm.
Origin and Description
Picasso painted the painting in his studio in Montmartre, the Bateau - Lavoir. He has here the young P'tit Louis portrays a craftsman who like watching Picasso at work. The writer André Salmon, a visitor to the studios, narrated that one night, Picasso had left a discussion of his friends and himself undertook the canvas again, he had a month left untouched. Picasso was also garlanded the portrait of the small craftsman with roses and " made this work a masterpiece" on a whim.
The painting shows a front of a pink wall carpet with floral motifs seated, pensive looking boy in a blue suit. He is moved close to the front edge of the picture, this overlaps the open legs and the right, relaxed dropped arm. He holds carelessly a small pipe in the delicate fingers of his left hand raised. In addition to the finely painted facial features right ear appears strikingly large and vivid; it seems to suggest attention, while the facial expression expresses self-absorption. On his head he wears a crown of flowers with pink roses. The dreamy mood that emanates from this picture, can be explained, among other things with the androgynous beauty of the boy and the floral decoration. The work is one of the most important works by Picasso of the year 1905.
Auctions
On 5 May 2004 the painting was by an unknown buyer at Sotheby's in New York by phone auction for a then-record sum for a painting of 104.2 million U.S. dollars ( 58.5 million pounds sterling at the time, nearly 85.7 million euro ) auctioned. At an art auction in New York in May 2010, again recorded Picasso's painting Nude with green leaves and bust, 1932, the Marie -Thérèse Walter is the world record price of $ 106.4 million ( 82 million euros ).