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Painting by Pablo Picasso

Garçon à la piping
English: Boy with a Pipe
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Year	1905
Medium	Oil on canvas
Motion	Picasso's Rose Period, Post-Impressionism
Dimensions	100 cm × 81.3 cm (39.4 in × 32.0 in)
Location	Private collection

Garçon à la Pipe (English: Boy with a Pipe ) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Menses, presently after he settled in the Montmartre area of Paris. The painting depicts a Parisian adolescent male child who holds a pipe in his left hand and wears a garland of flowers on his head, surrounded by two floral decorations. The subject was a local boy named "P'tit Louis" who died at a immature age. The painting is listed as one of the most expensive paintings, afterward being sold at Sotheby's auction for $104 million on 5 May 2004. It is currently the fifth highest selling painting by Picasso.

Background [edit]

In 1905, Picasso was still a struggling artist and had settled in Montmartre in Paris. He was living in poverty in a dilapidated artist building at 13 rue Ravignan known as Le Bateau-Lavoir. Picasso had fabricated the transition from his earlier pessimistic Blue Period and was now in a new, more optimistic stage known equally his Rose Period.^[1]

Description [edit]

Garçon à la Pipe depicts a teenage boy who is in a seated position surrounded by two bouquets of flowers. He is dressed in blueish overalls and wears a garland of roses on his caput. He holds a pipe in his left hand the incorrect mode round.^[2] André Salmon, a friend of Picasso, described in 1912 how Picasso had created the painting, "after a delightful series of metaphysical acrobats, dancers like priestesses of Diana, delightful clowns and contemplative Harlequins".^[iii] In identify of this, Picasso was now focusing on a unproblematic image of a young Parisian male child, dressed in bluish denim.

The boy depicted in this painting was known every bit "P'tit Louis", or "Little Louis". He was described by Picasso every bit, "1 of the "local types, actors, ladies, gentlemen, delinquents" who frequented the studios in the Bateau-Lavoir. The harsh life of a street male child resulted in the subject dying at a young historic period.^[1]

Preliminary studies for this painting show the boy in a variety of different poses, including standing, sitting, leaning confronting a wall, lighting a pipe or belongings it in his hands. Picasso eventually chose to draw his model in the seated position shown in the finished painting, which he painstakingly worked on in a preparatory study. The studies differ from the final painting past irresolute the subject from a immature boy to a more mature adolescent. The last upshot is a depiction of a mysterious figure surrounded by masses of flowers that is reminiscent of Odilon Redon's work.^[4]

André Salmon described how Picasso had transformed what was originally a study from life to the current artwork in a sudden flash of inspiration.^[5]

One night, Picasso abased the company of his friends and their intellectual chit-conversation. He returned to his studio, took the canvas he had abased a calendar month before and crowned the figure of the little apprentice lad with roses. He had fabricated this work a masterpiece thanks to a sublime whim.

Picasso'south rendering of "P'tit Louis" has elements of classical art. He was particularly inspired by the piece of work of the French Neoclassical painter Ingres. Like Picasso's Young Daughter with a Bloom Basket, which was painted in the aforementioned yr, Garçon à la Pipe conveys conflicting imagery of innocence and experience. Picasso described the boy as an "evil angel". In this painting, the boy wears a garland of roses on his head to symbolise the blood of the Eucharist, a reference to the transition from youth to maturity. In this painting, Picasso depicts the dissimilarity between the harsh street life that Louis endured and the innocence of his youth.^[1]

The peculiar position of the pipe in the male child's mitt has been the subject of estimation. As the piping was usually used as a symbol of intellectual reflection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, the pipe's position gains particular significance. The pipe appears as though existence held from outside the painting, rather than from inside, thus suggesting a fusion of realities, where the boy is a reflection of Picasso himself.^[2]

John Richardson suggested that the painting could have been inspired by a poem entitled A Law-breaking of Love past Paul Verlaine.^[6]

One of the most poetic Rose period images is the Boy with a Pipe. It conjures up Verlaine'south poem 'Crimen Amoris,' about a palace in Ecbatana where 'adolescent satans' neglect the five senses for the 7 mortiferous sins, except for the virtually handsome of all these evil angels, who is sixteen years erstwhile under his wreath of flowers… and who dreams away, his eyes full of burn and tears.

Claim for restitution and provenance [edit]

In 2004, Professor Julius H Schoeps challenged the 1949 sale of Male child with a Pipe due to circumstances related to the Nazi persecution of the Jewish owner and his attempts to shield the painting from seizure via his non-Jewish married woman.^[seven]

Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy probably acquired the painting c.1910. Presently before his death in 1935, he wrote a will bequeathing it to his not-Jewish wife, Countess Else Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Kesselstett (née Lavergne-Paguilhen) who sold it to Walter Feilchenfeldt in 1949. ^[viii] Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney then acquired the painting on 13 January 1950 for $xxx,000.^{[9] [10] [4]}

On 5 May 2004 the painting was sold for $104,168,000 at Sotheby's auction in New York City. Sotheby'south did not proper name the buyer though sources say that it was Guido Barilla, co-owner of the Barilla Group.^{[ten] [xi]} At the fourth dimension, it broke the tape for the corporeality paid for an auctioned painting (when inflation is ignored). The amount, $104 million, includes the auction price of $93 meg plus the auction firm'southward commission of about $eleven million.^[10] The painting was given a pre-sale estimate of $70 million by the auction house.^{[9] [10]}

Significance and legacy [edit]

In 2004, Charles Moffet, co-director of Impressionist and modern fine art at Sotheby's remarked on the painting's significance every bit a masterpiece.

It has a haunting ambiguity that has ensured its status as one of Picasso's most historic images of adolescent beauty. Information technology is, without question, one of the nearly beautiful of the artist's Rose Period paintings and one of the nigh important early works by Pablo Picasso.^[ix]

Reception [edit]

Garçon à la Pipe has been described equally a masterpiece, yet its sale at auction in 2004 for the price of $104 1000000 acquired some controversy amid fine art critics. Picasso expert Pepe Karmel described the work as a "minor painting" and considered that its high sale price showed, "how much the marketplace is divorced from the true values of art". Blake Gopnik for The Washington Times opined that, "Though the word "masterpiece" was much bandied about in the buildup to the auction, it's unlikely at that place'south a single art historian who would rate this Rose Period picture."^[12]

In contrast, The New York Sun remarked that, "'Boy with a Piping' is a thrilling painting whose beauty would take a lifetime to exhaust".^[13]

In popular culture [edit]

Calvin Harris' 2017 song "Slide" contains the lyrics "I might empty my bank business relationship and buy that boy with a piping". Vocalist Frank Ocean explained that it is an innuendo to, "a Picasso painting that sold for and then much money".^[xiv]

See too [edit]

• List of most expensive paintings
• Picasso's Rose Flow
• Picasso's Bluish Menses
• Young Girl with a Flower Basket
• Famille d'acrobates avec singe

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)". Christies. 8 Apr 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Picasso's Boy with a Pipe (1905)". Academia . Retrieved 3 Dec 2020.
3. ^ Herschel, Chipp (1968). Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. Academy of California Printing. pp. 199–200.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Pablo Picasso GARCON A LA Pipage". Sothebys . Retrieved iii Dec 2020.
5. ^ Salmon, André (1912). La jeune peinture française. Paris. pp. 41–42.
6. ^ John, Richardson (1991). A Life of Picasso. New York. p. 340.
7. ^ "Great-nephew of original owner of $104m Picasso challenges 1949 sale". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2022-02-13 . Mr Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who was childless, inserted a device in the will that "pre-bequeathed" the art to his Christian wife to save it from being seized past the Nazis, simply this backfired when she defied his wishes and sold off his most valuable pictures in the 1940s.
8. ^ Crow, Kelly (2020-04-06). "A Picasso Returned to Jewish Heirs by the National Gallery Goes on Auction for $10 One thousand thousand". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-02-thirteen . Several months before his death, he rewrote his will. The new certificate aimed to create the impression that he had given some other paintings—including van Gogh's "Madame Roulin and her Infant," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—to his second married woman, Elsa, upon their 1927 marriage, according to Mr. Byrne and court papers. In the will, Elsa agreed to bequeath whatsoever works she didn't sell to his sisters. Elsa, who later remarried, wound up selling most of the paintings, including "Madame Roulin" and "Male child with a Pipe."
9. ^ ^{a b c} "Entertainment | Picasso painting sells for $104m". BBC News. 2004-05-06. Retrieved 2012-11-22 .
10. ^ ^{a b c d} "Picasso's 'Male child with a Pipe' sells for $104 million - Entertainment - The Arts - TODAY.com". Today.com. Retrieved 2012-11-22 .
11. ^ Claire Foy-Smith, Who buys paintings for $104m?, BBC News Online, 6 May 2004
12. ^ Gopnik, Blake (May 7, 2004). "A Tape Picasso and the Hype Price of Status Objects". The Washington Post . Retrieved Nov 28, 2016.
13. ^ "'Boy With a Pipe'". The New York Sun. half-dozen May 2004. Retrieved 3 Dec 2020.
14. ^ Bychawski, Adam. "Frank Body of water Explains New Song Slide". Fact Mag . Retrieved thirty May 2019.

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