Mother and Child
Pablo Picasso Spanish, active France, 1881–1973
1921
On view — Gallery 394 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the ancient and Renaissance art of that city, he began painting monumental figures inspired by antiquity. His new classical style was influenced by the finely modeled…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 142.9 × 172.7 cm (56 1/4 × 68 in.)
- Origin
- Spain