Pablo Picasso

Galloping Horse with Rider

1904

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Pablo Picasso

Galloping Horse with Rider

Pablo Picasso

Galloping Horse with Rider

1904

Physical Qualities Pen and brown ink, Sheet: 283 × 307 mm. (11 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland

Object Number 1950.12.486

In this Picasso relied on line alone. He used outline to capture static poses and an excited, broken stroke to suggest the blurred contours of a figure in motion. Like the sketch of the Strong Man, these four drawings of circus performers probably came from a notebook that Picasso used during his frequent visits to the Medrano Circus in Paris. Some, such as Galloping Horse with Rider, served as preparatory studies for paintings. Others, like Girl Standing on Horse, led directly to prints, such as the drypoint At the Circus, exhibited nearby.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore

Oliver Shell, BMA, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger," 22 February through 17 May 2009.

Musee Picasso, Barcelona, "Picasso et le cirque," Musee Picasso, Barcelona, 15 November 2006 - 18 February 2007, and Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 9 March - 10 June 2007, cat. 55.

Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Picasso: The Circus," April 22-July 22 2001.

Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.

BMA, "Matisse, Picasso, and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August 1995.

Musee Picasso, Barcelona, "Picasso 1905-1906," 5 February - 19 April 1992, and Kunstmuseum, Berne, 8 May - 26 June 1992, cat. 136.

BMA, "Picasso: The Museum Collection," 11 July - 27 August 1989.

BMA, Cone rotation, 5 July - 25 September 1988.

Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 11 May 1974.

Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, pl. 100, top.

Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. XXII," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1970, no. 259.

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, D.XII.14.

Adelyn Breeskin, "Picasso's 'Saltimbanques' in the Cone Collection," "The Baltimore Museum of Art News," vol. XIII, no. 3, December 1949, p. 4.

"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967 no. 289.

Denys Sutton, "The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods," London:

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1971, no. 194a, ill.

Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 16.

Dupuis-Labbé, Dominique, and Ocaña, Maria Teresa. Picasso y el circo: Barcelona, Museu Picasso, 15 de noviembre de 2006 - 18 de febrero de 2007, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 9 de marzo - 10 de junio de 2007. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura: Museu Picasso; Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2006, ill. cat. no. 55, page 121.

Inscribed: lower left in brown ink: "Picasso"