PABLO PICASSO - BOY LEADING A HORSE

Pablo Picasso (18811973) developed the monumental, mysterious painting Boy Leading a Horse (19056) from an unrealized mural during a pivotal period of evolution in his art. He was emerging from his "Blue Period" and his "Rose Period," but not yet at work on the groundbreaking Demoiselles dAvignon (1907). Annemarie Iker offers a close examination of this composition, produced during a phase of private introspection and art historical investigation at the start of the 20th century.