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Vertically oriented painting in blue tones of seven people with light skin tones. On our right, a person wrapped in a blue cloak holds a sleeping baby and looks at two people on the left, one nude and leaning on the chest of another only wearing underwear. In the background, two people sit, one curling in to the chest of the other as they embrace. Below, a single person rests their head on their knees.

La Vie

1903
(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain
oil on canvas
Framed: 239 x 170 x 10 cm (94 1/8 x 66 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 196.5 x 129.2 cm (77 3/8 x 50 7/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1945.24
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Zervos I.179; Sutton/Lecaldano 89; Daix, Boudaille, Rosselet IX.13; Palau i Fabre: 882; PP 1903-071
Location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde

Did You Know?

Picasso began drawing as a child and studying at an art school at age eleven. He later remarked that "art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

Description

In 1901, depressed over the suicide of his close friend, poet and painter Carles Casagemas, Picasso launched into the melancholic paintings of his Blue Period (1901–4). Only 21 years old and struggling to support himself, he restricted his palette to cool colors suggestive of night, mystery, dreams, and death. His interest in themes of human misery and social alienation reached its climax with this painting. The subject has been interpreted variously as a symbolic representation of sacred and profane love or the cycle of life, or a realistic portrayal of a working-class couple facing the hazards of real life.
  • 1904
    Sebastià Junyent [1865-1908], Barcelona, Spain (acquired from Picasso along with The Old Jews in 1904 for 500 pesetas)
    (Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France)
    1926
    (Justin K. Thannhauser [1892-1976], Munich/Berlin/Lucerne, acquired by 1926)
    1931
    (Reid & Lefevre, London, United Kingdom, by 1931, shared with Thannhauser)
    1932
    (Etienne Bignou, Paris,France, by 1932, shared with Thannhauser and Reid & Lefevre)
    1937
    Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1937
    1944
    (Theodore Schempp [1904-1988], New York, NY,1944)
    1944-1945
    (Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, NY,1944)
    1945
    (Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, NY, 1945 sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1945-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • "Pablo Ruiz Picasso." El Liberal (June 4, 1903): 2. Mentioned: p. 2
    Schürer, Oskar. "Picassos Klassizismus," in Die Kunst für Alle, 27 (Munich, April 1926). Reproduced: p. 204.
    The Arts, 9. no. 2 (February 1927) Reproduced frontispiece, p. 60 in bound edition.
    Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin. Berlin: Galerien Thannhauser, 1927. Reproduced: p. 117, cat. 175
    Zervos, Christian. "Picasso: Oeuvres inédites anciennes." Cahiers d'art, 3 (1928). Reproduced: p. 109.
    Gaunt, William. "Picasso and the Cul-de-sac of Modern Painting." Atelier 1, no. 3 (June 1931): 410-416. Reproduced: p. 411
    Lefevre Gallery. Thirty Years of Pablo Picasso : June 1931. London: Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd., 1931. Mentioned and reproduced: cat. 3
    Earp, T.W. "The Picasso Exhibition." Apollo 14, no. 79 (July 1931): 40-42. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 40.
    Exposition Picasso. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1932. Reproduced: no. 17.
    Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso, Vol. 1: Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1, 1932. Mentioned: p. 179; Reproduced: plate 83
    George, Waldemar. "The Picasso Exhibition." Formes 25 (May 1932): 268-271. Reproduced
    "Modern Recognition." The Art News 30, no. 39 (August 13, 1932): 8. Reproduced: on cover.
    Pablo Picasso : Kleiner Katalog : 11. September Bis 30. Oktober 1932, Kunsthaus Zürich. Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1932. Mentioned: p.2. no. 18 (as Das Leben)
    "Art Throughout America: Providence: A Newly Acquired Picasso of the Blue Period." The Art News 36, no. 11 (December 11, 1937): 16. Mentioned: p. 16.
    "When Picasso was Blue." The Art Digest 12, no. 6 (December 15, 1937): 5. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5
    Daly, D. "La Vie, Picasso." Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design 26, no. 1 (January 1938): 2-3. Mentioned: p. 2-3; Reproduced: on cover
    Barr, Alfred H., Jr., Picasso: Forty Years of His Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1939. Reproduced: cat. no. 19.
    Worcester Art Museum. The Art of the Third Republic; French Painting 1870-1940. [Worcester, Mass.]: [Printed by the Davis Press], 1941. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 34
    Slatkin, Charles E. The Enjoyment of Art in America: A Survey of the Permanent Collections of Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, and Decorative Arts in American and Canadian Museums. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. [6] archive.org
    Francis, Henry. "Picasso's 'La Vie.'" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 6 (June 1945): 88, 93-94. Reproduced: p. 82; Mentioned: p. 88, 93-94 www.jstor.org
    Barr, Alfred H., Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26-27
    M. Knoedler & Co. Picasso Before 1907: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of The Public Education Association. New York: Knoedler Galleries, 1947. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. 17
    Picasso "L'atelier:" Paintings of 1956. Lucerne: Galerie Rosengart, 1957. Reproduced: p. 91, no. 25
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 521 archive.org
    In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 68
    Blunt, Anthony, and Phoebe Pool. Picasso, the Formative Years; a Study of His Sources. [Greenwich]: New York Graphic Society, 1962. Mentioned: p. 20-21
    Milhau, Denis. Picasso et Le théâtre. Toulouse: Musée des Augustins, 1965. Mentioned: p. 41-42, cat. 1
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 196 archive.org
    Daix, Pierre, Georges Boudaille, and Joan Rosselet. Picasso, 1900-1906: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Neuchatel: Ides et Calends, 1966-88. Mentioned: 58-60, 64, and 222; Reproduced: p. 222-223, IX.13
    Sutton, Denys and Paolo Lecaldano. The Complete Painting of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 94, cat. 89, plate XIII
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 195 archive.org
    Hennig, Edward B. "Pablo Picasso: Fan, Salt Box, and Melon." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 8 (October 1969): 273-286. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 276, fig. 6 www.jstor.org
    Penrose, Roland, John Golding, and Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. Picasso, 1881-1973. London: Elek, 1973.
    Reff, Theodore. "Love and Death in Picasso's Early Work." Artforum 11, no. 9 (May 1973): 64-73. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 66, fig. 5
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 241 archive.org
    McCully, Marilyn and Robert McVaugh. "New Light on Picasso's La Vie." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65 (February 1978): 67-71. Mentioned: p. 67-71; Reproduced: p. 66 www.jstor.org
    Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso, the Early Years, 1881-1907. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. Mentioned: p. 339-341, and 541; Reproduce, p. 341, no. 882
    Gedo, Mary Mathews. "The Archaeology of a Painting: A Visit to the City of the Dead Beneath Picasso's La Vie." Arts 56, no. 3 (November 1981): 116-129. Reproduced: 116, fig. 1
    Kitaj, R. B., and Timothy Hyman. "A Return to London." Kitaj Paintings, Drawings, Pastels. John Ashebury, Joe Shannon, Jane Livingston, 41. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1983. Mentioned: p. 41
    McCully, Marilyn and Jürgen Glaesemer. Der Junge Picasso: Frühwerk Und Blaue Periode. Bern: Kunstmuseum, 1984. Mentioned: p.166-176 and p. 283-293; Reproduce: p. 169, p. 283 and p. 293, kat. 194
    Spies, Werner. Kontinent Picasso: Ausgewählte Aufsätze aus zwei Jahrzehnten. München: Prestel, 1988. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 105-106, abb. 105
    Robinson, William H. "Puvis De Chavannes's Summer and the Symbolist Avant-Garde." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 1 (1991): 2-27. Mentioned: p. 16 www.jstor.org
    Boggs, Jean Sutherland, Brigitte Léal, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992. Reproduced: P. 344
    Daix, Pierre. Picasso: Life and Art. New York: Icon Editions, 1993.
    Gedo, Mary Mathews. Looking at Art from the Inside Out : The Psychoiconographic Approach to Modern Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Discussed: p. 87-118; Reproduced, p. 89, fig. 28
    Daix, Pierre. Dictionnaire Picasso. Paris: R. Laffont, 1995. Reproduced: p. 628-629, pl. 1
    Asahi Shinbunsha. Pikaso: 20-seiki no kyoshōo. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1995. Reproduced: fig. 8
    Chipp, Herschel, Alan Wofsy, and Fernand Mourlot. Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1995. Reproduced: p. 24, fig. 1903-071
    McCully, Marilyn and Natasha Staller. Picasso: the Early Years, 1892-1906. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. Reproduced: p. 6, 190
    Fukaya, Katsunori. Pikaso ten: kaikan 10-shūnen kinen (Pablo Picasso: 10th anniversary). Japan: Chūnichi Shinbunsha, 1998. Reproduced: p. 19, no. 11
    Spieler, Reinhard and Hans Belting. Max Beckmann: Bildwelt und Weltbild in den Triptychen. Cologne: DuMont, 1998. Reproduced: p. 93, no. 15
    Arnason, H. Harvard and Marla Prather. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Reproduced: p. 165, pl. 87
    Warncke, Carsten-Peter, Ingo F. Walther, and Michael Hulse. Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973. Cologne: Taschen, 1998. Reproduced: p. 39
    Mørstad, Erik. "Jung og Picasso - Henderson og Pollock: Jungianismen som billedanalytisk verktøy." Kunst og Kultur 81, no. 1 (1998): 18-59. Mentioned: p. 30; Reproduced, p. 36, ill. 3
    Kosinski, Dorothy M. The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 300, fig. 146
    Richardson, John, and Marilyn McCully. A Life of Picasso. New York: Random House, 1991. I:269-279.
    Hunter, Sam, John M. Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2000 Reproduced: p. 134, no. 222
    Picasso: Museo Nacional de Colombia: mayo 13-agosto 11, Bogotá, 2000. Bogotá, Colombia: Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2000. Reproduced: p. 139
    Léal, Brigitte, Christine Piot, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. The Ultimate Picasso. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Reproduced: p. 69, no. 133
    Cox, Neil. Cubism. London: Phaidon, 2000. Mentioned: p. 34-35, reproduced: fig. 15
    Solender, Katherine, "From Peacocks to Picasso", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 09, November 2000 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
    FitzGerald, Michael C., and William H. Robinson. Picasso: The Artist's Studio. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001. Mentioned: p. 98-99; p. 19, 22, 24, 63-87; Reproduced pp. 62, 98
    Clair, Jean. Picasso Érotique. Munich: Prestel, 2001. Reproduced: p. 91, fig. 5
    Tōkyō Shōkō Kaigisho. Karā kōdinēshon no kiso: karā kōdinētā kentei shiken 3-kyū kōshiki tekisuto (Introduction to color coordination). Tokyo: Tōkyō Shōkō Kaigisho, 2001 Reproduced: p. 28
    May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned: p. 54-55; Reproduced: p. 54
    Lemoine, Serge. From Puvis De Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern Art. Milan: Bompiani, 2002. Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 19
    Andersen, Wayne V. Picasso's Brothel: Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. New York, NY: Other Press, 2002 Reproduced: p. 192, fig. 19
    Ocaña, María Teresa. Picasso joven. La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa, 2002. Reproduced: p. 72
    Sekai bijutsukan no tabi. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2002. Reproduced: p. 310
    Meyer, Richard. Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Visions. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2003. Reproduced: p. 236, fig. 10
    Becht-Jördens, Gereon and Peter Matthias Wehmeier. Picasso und die christliche Ikonographie: Mutterbeziehung und künstlerische Position. Berlin: Reimer, 2003. Reproduced: cover and fig. 1
    Senzoku, Nobuyuki. Seiyō kaiga meisaku hyakuissen. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2003. Reproduced: p. 182, fig.100
    Picasso in Istanbul. Istanbul, Turkey: Sabanci University, Sakip Sabanci Museum, 2005. Reproduced: p. 19, fig. 2
    Lara Elizondo, Lupina. Referencias de Picasso en México: ocho pintores (1900-1950): Angel Zárraga, Diego Rivera, Carlos Mérida, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Alfonso Michel, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Gutiérrez, Federico Cantú. México, DF: Qualitas Compañía de Seguros, 2005. Reproduced: p. 53
    Burgess, Margaret, "The Colorful Mr. Hanna", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 09, November 2005 Mentioned & reproduced: 6 archive.org
    Berggruen, Olivier and Max Hollein. Picasso und das Theater. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 1
    Adams, Laurie. The Making and Meaning of Art. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. Reproduced: p. 147, fig. 8.2
    Serraler, Francisco Calvo and Carmen Giménez. Picasso : Tradition and Avant-Garde. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2006. Mentioned: p. 76-89; Reproduced: p. 77, cat. 1
    Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2006. Mentioned: p. 135; Reproduced p. 134
    Calvo Serraller, Francisco. Picasso: tradición y vanguardia: guía antológica de la exposición, Madrid: Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, 2006. Mentioned: p. 8-9; Reproduced: p. 9
    Robinson, William H., Laurence Channing, Barbara J. Bradley, and Margaret Burgess. Monet to Dalí: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
    Seki, Naoko. Pikaso. Tokyo, Japan: Shōgakukan, 2006. Reproduced: p. 51
    Hall, James. The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. Reproduced: p. 333, fig.37
    Duchting, Hajo. Pablo Picasso. London: Prestel, 2008. Reproduced: p. 6
    Yūki, Masako. Pikaso egakareta koi: yattsu no koigokoro de yomitoku pikaso no miryoku. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2008. Reproduced: p. 21
    Tinterow, Gary, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, et al. Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Reproduced: p. 63, fig. 22.4
    Arnason, H. Harvard and Elizabeth Mansfield. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010. Reproduced: p. 160, no. 8.2
    Giedion, Sigfried, Gotthard Jedlicka, and Piet Meyer. Pablo Picasso in Zürich--1932. Bern, Switzerland: Meyer, 2010. Reproduced: p. 80, Abb.15
    Cox, Neil. The Picasso Book. London: Tate Publishing, 2010. Reproduced: p. 10, fig. 2; Mentioned: p. 273-274
    Galassi, Susan Grace and Marilyn McCully. Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Reproduced: p. 100, fig. 51
    The Picasso Project: Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973: The Blue Period, 1902-1904, Barcelona and Paris. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 124, no. 1903-071
    Robinson, William H. Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. Reproduced: p. 31
    Zuffi, Stefano. Colour in Art. Antwerpen, Belgium: Ludion, 2012. Reproduced: p. 139
    Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Books, 2012. Reproduced: p. 292-293
    Ramon, Artur. Nada es bello sin el azar: quince episodios sobre pintura. Barcelona: Elba, 2012. Reproduced: p. 137, fig. 44
    Vallès, Eduard and Isabel Cendoya. Yo Picasso: self-portraits. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura: Museu Picasso, 2013. Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 6, 7
    Andral, Jean-Louis, Marilyn McCully, Michael Raeburn, et al. Picasso dans la collection Nahmad. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2013. Reproduced: p. 273-274, fig. 4; Mentioned: p. 419
    Bozal Fernández, Valeriano. Historia de la pintura y la escultura del siglo XX en España. Madrid: Machado Grupo de Distribucion, 2013. Reproduced: p. 45
    The Art Newspaper 23, no. 252 (December 2013). Reproduced: p. 32
    Gual, Malén, Reyes Jiménez, and William H. Robinson. Journey Through the Blue: La Vie. Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2013. p. 103, cat. no. 20
    Castaño, Antonia, Maria Teresa Ocaña, Neil Cox, Brigitte Léal, Valeriano Bozal Fernández, Christopher Green. Picasso en el taller. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, Instituto de Cultura, 2014. Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 3
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 294-295
    Pratesi, Ludovico. "Le Sfide del Grande Transfiguratore." Art e dossier, no. 316 (December 2014). Mentioned: p. 30-35; Reproduced: p. 31
    "Avec le Bleu une Histoire qui Dure." Beaux arts magazine, no. 368 (Fevrier 2015). Mentioned: p. 52-53; Reproduced: p. 52
    Vallès, Eduard. Picasso: obra catalana. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2015. Reproduced: p. 236-237
    Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. Madrid: Ediciones El Viso 2016. Reproduced: p. 82
    Müller, Markus. "The Many Metamorphoses of the Minotaur." In Pablo Picasso. Munich: Hirmer, 2016. Reproduced: p. 14, fig. 4
    Jones, Caroline A. The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58-59, fig. 2.8
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 46-47
    Kisters, Sandra. The Lure of the Biographical: On the (Self-)Representation of Modern Artists. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017. Reproduced: p. 57, n.171
    Koldehoff, Stefan. "Marketing Modernism: The Thannhauser Gallery and Its Clients." Marketing Van Gogh. Stefan Koldehoff, and Chris Stolwijk, eds., 56-81. Brussels: Mercatorfonds; Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2017. Reproduced: p. 61, fig. 43
    Jiménez-Blanco, María Dolores. Antes, Desde y Después del Cubismo: Picasso, Gris, Blanchard, Gargallo y González, y Vuelta a Picasso. Boadilla del Monte (Madrid): Machado Libros, 2017. Reproduced: p. 97, fig. 1
    Saragoza, Florence, and Pablo Picasso. Picasso et la maternité. 2017. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 22-23
    Rynck, Patrick de and Jon Thompson. Understanding Painting: From Giotto to Warhol. New York: Ludion, distributed by Abrams, 2018. Reproduced: p. 237
    Tasseau, Verane, and Jean-Louis Andral. Pablo Picasso en 15 questions. [Vanves] : Hazan, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 28-31
    Moore, John L., Esther Jun, Clodagh Keogh, William H. Robinson, Danni Shen, Enid Shomer, and Reto Thüring. Demise: Rina Banerjee, Esperanza Cortés, Jae Rhim Lee, Brian Maguire, Paolo Pelosini, Levent Tuncer. 2018, 6. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 4-6.
    Bernardi, Claire, Stephanie Molins, and Émilia Philippot. Picasso: Bleu et Rose. Vanves: Hazan: M'O, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21
    Faerna, José María. Picasso. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2018. Reproduced: P. 25
    Lloyd, Christopher. Picasso and the Art of Drawing. London: Modern Art Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 44, fig. 25
    Betard, D. "Picasso en bleu, en rose et en chefs-d'oeuvre," Beaux arts magazine, 411 (Sept. 2018). Mentioned: p. 78-86; Reproduced: p. 81
    Toscano, F. "Becoming Picasso." Modern Painters (Sept. 2018). Mentioned: p. 104-110; Reproduced: p. 107
    De Micci, L. "L'alba del Genio e Blu e Rosa." Il giornale dell'arte 36, no. 389 (Sept. 2018). Mentioned: p. 39-40
    Toscano, Frank. "Becoming Picasso: A major exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay looks at six formative years early last century, now known as his Blue and Rose periods." Modern painters : a quarterly journal of the fine arts 30, no. 8 (September 2018): 105-110 Mentioned; p. 107
    Le Bon, Laurent, Claire Bernardi, Stephanie Molins, et al. Picasso, Bleu et Rose. Vanves: Hazan, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 180-182
    Bouvier, Raphaël, ed. Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods. Riehen/Basel: Fondation Beyeler, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 118-119; 122-123
    Picasso, Pablo. Bijiasuo: yi wei tian cai de dan sheng = Picasso: Birth of a Genius. 北京市: 文化藝術出版社, 2019. Reproduced: P. 219, 225
    Michael, Cora. "Gauguin in the the Buckeye and Hoosier States: Portrait of Teuraheimata and its Midwestern Collectors." In Paul Gauguin: Teuraheimata a Potoru, a Rediscovery, 11-19. New York: Jill Newhouse Gallery; [Akron, Ohio]: Thomas French Fine Art, 2019. Mentioned: P. 14
    Bouvier, Raphaël. Le Jeune Picasso: Périodes Bleue et Rose. Riehen/Bâle, Suisse : Fondation Beyler ; Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2019. Reproduced: P. 22, 27
    Berggruen, Olivier. "Painting as Drama: Picasso's Late Paintings." In Picasso: The Late Work: from the Collection of Jacqueline Picasso. Ortrud Westheider, and Michael Philipp, eds. Munich: Prestel, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 29-31
    Ormiston, Rosalind. Picasso. Munich; London; New York: Prestel, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 50-51
    Planas, Claustre Raffart. "Early Works and the Blue Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 62-79. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020. Reproduced: P. 75, cat. no. 48
    McCully, Marilyn. "Picasso in the Studio." In Picasso: Painting the Blue Period. Kenneth Brummel, and Susan Behrends Frank, eds., 10-23. New York: DelMonico Books · D.A.P.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 18-19, fig. 16
    Frank, Susan Behrends. "Chronology." In Picasso: Painting the Blue Period. Kenneth Brummel, and Susan Behrends Frank, eds., 294-321. New York: DelMonico Books · D.A.P.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 306-307, fig. 13
    Michels, Stefanie. Leipziger Schule und Kritischer Realismus: die Sammlung Fritz P. Mayer. München: Hirmer, 2022. Reproduced: P. 50
    Arn, Jackson. "From God to 10,000 hours." Art in America 110, no.5 (June/July 2022): 42-47 Mentioned and reproduced: p.46
    Conzen, Ina. Picasso. München: C.H.Beck, 2023. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20, fig. 5
    Guégan, Stéphane. Picasso: Les Chefs-d’Œuvre. Paris: Éditions El Viso, 2023. Reproduced: p. 2, 67, no. 22
    Lahuerta, Juan José. Being an Artist : Julio González. Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2023. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 40-41, fig. 54
    Maldonado, Guitemie. "Picasso: Trajectoire d'un Geant." Dossiers de l'Art 307, no. 4 (2023): 10-27. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 12-13
    McPherson, Heather. Picturing the Artist's Studio, from Delacroix to Picasso. London: Lund Humphries, 2024. Mentioned: p. 101; Reproduced: p. 103, fig. 74
  • Picasso and Paper. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (co-organizer) (January 25-August 2, 2020) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/picasso-and-paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
    Picasso: Blue and Rose. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (September 18, 2018-January 6, 2019); Fondation Beyeler, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (February 3-June 16, 2019).
    Lend-Back: Painting the Modern Garden. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (organizer) (September 11-December 7, 2015).
    Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-April 21, 2013); Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain (October 10, 2013-January 19, 2014).
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    CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).
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    Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (March 30-July 27, 1997); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 10, 1997-January 4, 1998).
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    Picasso and the Theatre. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (organizer) (June 22-September 15, 1965).
    Picasso. Tate Britain, London (July 5-September 18, 1960).
    In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
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    Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser (January 9- mid-February 1927).
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