Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973
Bernareggi en el Museo del Prado (from Quadern de Madrid), 1897
Red chalk on paper
20 x 12,3 cm
Signed with dedicatory "A mi amigo Paco"
Picasso used sketchbooks as a kind of diary in which he investigated and experimented in order to solve the problems inherent in his creative process. Such was the importance of...
Picasso used sketchbooks as a kind of diary in which he investigated and experimented in order to solve the problems inherent in his creative process. Such was the importance of these sketchbooks for the painter that in 1907 he wrote on the pages of one of them: "Je suis le cahier" (I am the sketchbook). Moreover, he never disposed of most of his sketchbooks, but instead kept them with him all his life.
Provenance
Private collection, Girona
