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Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Print in black ink on cream paper of the outline of two people dancing on the back of a horse. Only the head and front legs of the horse are shaded. The people, only slightly over half the horse's height, line up one behind the other with only the outline of their pointed right toes touching the horse's back. They kick their left legs back, throwing their hands in the air and leaning back.

At the Circus

winter 1905–6, printed 1913

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer

Louis Fort

(French, active 1800s–1900s)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
Spain, 20th century
drypoint
Image and Plate: 22 x 14 cm (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Sheet: 51 x 33.2 cm (20 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.895
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 9; Palau i Fabre 1119; Geiser/Baer I.35.11
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Picasso frequently attended the Cirque Medrano in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris where he lived at the time.
  • Dumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020. Reproduced: P. 89, cat. no. 61
  • Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=At the Circus|url=false|author=Pablo Picasso, Louis Fort, Ambroise Vollard|year=winter 1905–6, printed 1913|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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