Head of Young Boy
Pablo Picasso
1944
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and gray wash, with scraping and touches of pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 50 × 28.8 cm (19 11/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- brush and ink
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Cubismdrawings (visual works)inkgray washprints and drawingpaperbrush and inkpaper (fiber product)wove paper
About
Picasso executed this drawing in his Paris studio in 1944, when the city had become a battlefield during World War II. The subject has been identified as a young French resistance fighter who was active during the last days of the war.
