Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Tete de mosquetaire (6 October, 1968)
Ink and chalk on paper
16.5cm x 11cm (6.5″ x 4.33″)
Signed and dated above, “6.10.68.II Picasso”
Literature: Zervos, C. Pablo Picasso”, Oeuvres de 1967 et 1968, Vol. XXVII, Editions Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1973, #327. Ref #02443-P.
PRICE: on request
This is a wonderful Rembrandtesque Musketeer from 1968. This is a very typical theme for the artist late in his life, as he romanticized adventure and swashbuckling as quintessential masculinity.
