1906-1907 was a transitional period for Picasso, dividing youth from maturity, promise from fulfillment. In two years of intense work, a painter of late-nineteenth-century sensibility would be reborn as a prophet of modernity. Taking crucial steps on the path to an artistic revolution, he had no clear destination in mind except the intention to push his art in a new direction to challenge Matisse and his Fauve colleagues. In seeking an alternative to the Frenchman’s chromatic profligacy, he steeped himself in the art of his country’s Iberian past. His search led him back to the art of Gauguin, but also forward to new discoveries like the work of Paul Cézanne and African sculpture.
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Femme au casque de cheveux . Paris. [End-Spring]/1904a. Gouache on Wood Pulp Board. 42,7 x 31,3 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago. (Inv 1950.128). OPP.04:026.
Femme à la corneille ( Marguerite ) b. Paris. [Mid-Summer]/1904. Gouache and Pastel on Paper Pasted on Cardboard. 60,5 x 45,5 cm. The Toledo Museum of Art. (Inv 1936.4). OPP.04:005.
Femme à la corneille ( Marguerite ) c. Paris. [Mid-Summer]/1904. Gouache and Pastel on Paper. 60,5 x 45,5 cm. Private Collection, New York. OPP.04:013.
Fleurs dans un vase bleu . Paris. [End]/1904 d. Gouache and Watercolor on Wood. 61,5 x 47 cm. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. OPP.04:075.
Vase de fleurs . Paris. [End]/1904. Gouache on Paper. 62 x 47 cm. Sotheby’s. #1, 05/11/87. OPP.04:076.
Famille d’acrobates avec singe . Paris. [Early]/1905 a. Gouache, Watercolor, Pastel and India Ink on Cardboard. 104 x 75 cm. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg. (Inv GKM 0699). OPP.05:003.
Fillette à la corbeille fleurie ( Linda la Bouquetière ). Paris. [Late-Summer]/1905 b. Oil on Canvas. 154,8 x 66,1 cm. Helly Nahmad Collection, Monaco/London. OPP.05:030.
La famille de saltimbanques ( Les bateleurs ). Paris. [Late/1904]-[Fall]/1905. Oil on Canvas. 212,8 x 229,6 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. (Inv 1963.10.190). OPP.05:002.
Chevaux au bain . Paris. [Early-Spring]/1906. Gouache on Tan Paper Board. 37,8 x 58,1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. (Inv 1984.433.274). OPP.06:061.
Le meneur de cheval nu: Jeune homme nu conduisant un cheval ( Étude ). Paris. [Mid-Spring]/1906. Rose-Red Watercolor on Brown Vellum. 50,2 x 33 cm. The Baltimore Museum of Art. (Inv 50.12.491). OPP.06:049.
Autoportrait . Gósol. [June-July]/1906. Charcoal on Paper. 25 x 23 cm. Catherine Hutin-Blay Collection, Paris. OPP.06:251.
Buste de femme (Bois de Gósol) . Gósol. [Early-July]/1906. Carved Wood with Traces of Red and Black Paint. 77 x 15,5 x 15 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris. OPP.06:350.
Nu sur fond rouge . Paris. [End-August-September]/1906. Oil on Canvas. 81 x 54 cm. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. (Inv RF.1963.74). OPP.06:023.
Nu se coiffant . Paris. Fall/1906. Oil on Canvas. 105,4 x 81,3 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX. (Inv AP.1982.06). OPP.06:055.
Buste de femme à la main levée . Paris. Summer-Fall/1906. Wood Engraving. 21,9 x 13,8 cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Inv 1975.677). OPP.06:339.
Buste de jeune femme de trois-quarts . Paris. Summer-Fall/1906. Woodcut 15. 56 x 38,5 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris. OPP.06:101.
Tête de femme (Fernande) . Paris. [Mid-October]/1906. Unfired Clay. 36,3 x 25 x 25 cm. Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan, Liechtenstein. (Inv S1T). OPP.06:426.
Deux nus (Étude) . Paris. Fall/1906. Conté Crayon & Charcoal on Paper. 62 x 47,3 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. The Joan & Lester Avnet Collection. OPP.06:113.
Femme nue assise, les jambes croisées . Paris. [Late]/1906. Oil on Canvas Mounted on Wood. 151 x 100 cm. Národni Galerie, Prague. (Inv O 3220). Purchased 1923. OPP.06:130.
Deux nus . Paris. [Late]/1906. Oil on canvas. 151,3 x 93 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. (Inv 621.1959). Gift of G. David Thompson, in Honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1959. OPP.06:024.
Trois nus (Étude) . Paris. Winter/1906. Oil on Canvas. 25,1 x 30,2 cm. The Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA. (Inv BF.211). OPP.06:234.
Nu à la draperie: buste de femme (Étude) . Paris. Early-Spring/1907. Gouache & Watercolor on Paper. 31,3 x 24,2 cm. Christie’s. #16, 16718, 05/08/18. OPP.07:366.
Femme au corsage jaune . Paris. Spring/1907. Oil on Canvas. 130,5 x 96,5 cm. Private Collection. OPP.07:043.
Buste de femme . Paris. May-June/1907. Oil on Canvas. 61 x 46,5 cm. The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. (Inv 9046). Acquisition 1948. OPP.07:013.
Nu à la draperie: la grande danseuse (Étude) . Paris. [May-Early-July]/1907. Oil on Canvas. 31 x 22 cm. Christie’s. #31, 7021, 02/07/05. OPP.07:270.
Les demoiselles d’Avignon: Nu jaune (Étude) . Paris. June-July/1907. Watercolor, Gouache & India Ink on Paper. 59,8 x 39,5 cm. Gretchen and John Berggruen Collection, San Francisco. OPP.07:271.
Demoiselle d’Avigon . Paris. June-July/1907. Oil on Canvas. 66 x 59 cm. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (Inv AM.4320P). Purchase 1965. OPP.07:014.
Les demoiselles d’Avignon . Paris. June-July/1907. Oil on Canvas. 243,9 x 233,7 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. (Inv 333.1939). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. OPP.07:001.