Watercolour and gouache on paper
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C Frank Stoop
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Horse with a Youth in Blue
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
animals: mammals
boy
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horse
people
paper unique watercolour gouache
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17 May 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
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Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga, Spain)
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Picasso and the Horse
Loan-out
25 September 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
25 September 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
2011-09-25
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)
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2011-09-25
Picasso 1905 in Paris
Loan-out
15 February 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
15 February 2012 – 15 July 2012
2012-07-15
2012-02-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2012-08-04
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2012-02-15
Picasso and Modern British Art
Exhibition
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
4 August 2012 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2012-08-04
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2012-08-04
Picasso and Modern Art
Loan-out
24 June 2014 – 5 October 2014
2014-10-05
24 June 2014 – 5 October 2014
2014-10-05
2014-06-24
Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain)
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El Greco y la pintura moderna
Loan-out
12 March 2022 – 3 July 2022
2022-07-03
12 March 2022 – 3 July 2022
2022-07-03
2022-03-12
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
2022-03-12
Young Picasso: the making of modernity
Loan-out
14 November 2023 – 4 March 2024
2024-03-04
14 November 2023 – 4 March 2024
2024-03-04
2023-11-14
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain)
2023-11-14
Picasso 1906
Loan-out
Horse with a Youth in Blue
support: 498 × 321 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
<p><b>Pablo Picasso</b><span> 1881-1973 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/picasso-horse-with-a-youth-in-blue-n04721" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04721</span></a> </span><b>Cheval avec Jeune Homme en bleu</b><span> (Horse with a Youth in Blue) 1905-6 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Picasso' t.l.</span>
<br/><span>Watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on panel, 19 5/8 x 12 5/8 (50 x 32)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
C. Frank Stoop, London (probably purchased through the Stafford Gallery, London, 1912)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Drawings by Pablo Picasso</i><span>, Stafford Gallery, London, April-May 1912 (5), as 'Cheval avec jeune homme en bleu'; </span><i>The CAS: Loan Exhibition of Modern Foreign Painting</i><span>, Colnaghi's Galleries, London, June-July 1924 (49), as 'Boy' lent by Mrs Stoop; </span><i>Picasso</i><span>, Tate Gallery, July-September 1960 (28, repr.); </span><i>Picasso</i><span>, Trinity College, Dublin, May-August 1969 (3, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Christian Zervos, </span><i>Pablo Picasso</i><span> (Paris 1932), Vol.1, No.270, repr. pl.119; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., </span><i>Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art</i><span>
(New York 1946), p.42; Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, </span><i>Picasso</i><span>
(London 1955), p.135; Georges Boudaille, Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, </span><i>Picasso 1900-1906</i><span>
(Neuchâtel 1966), No.XIV.4, pp.284-8, repr. p.285</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Rothenstein, </span><i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1947), pl.94 </span>
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<p><span>This is one of the first of a series of studies for the large <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> 'Boy leading a Horse' now in the Mr and Mrs William S. Paley collection, New York (oil on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a>, 195 x 97cm). In the latter the boy is nude and holds his right arm extended gripping the horse's bridle. There are several <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> which show intermediate stages. </span>
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<p><span>It would appear that Picasso intended at one point to make a large-scale <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> showing the boy leading a horse with several men on horseback around a watering-place. A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a>, a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>, a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> drawing and a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drypoint" title="Glossary definition for 'Drypoint'"><span>drypoint</span></a> for the whole composition exist (repr. Boudaille, Daix and Rosselet, op. cit., Nos.XIV.14-16) and there are also six or seven studies for other figures. Zervos dates all these 1905, but Boudaille et al. point out that there is a related pen drawing of a nude boy on a horse which is inscribed 1906. They date the Tate's drawing and the other early studies 1905-6 and the studies for 'The Watering-Place' (or 'Chevaux au Bain') spring-summer 1906. </span>
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<p><span>Though this watercolour has generally been known in recent years as 'Jeune Homme et Cheval', it was exhibited at the Stafford Gallery in 1912 as 'Cheval avec Jeune Homme en Bleu' (and was priced at £22, the most expensive item in the exhibition). The identification is confirmed by the review in the </span><i>Athenæum</i><span>, 27 April 1912, p.478: '... in </span><i>Cheval avec jeune Homme en Bleu</i><span> (5) the horse is quite comic, from the way in which, by an exaggeration of Van Dyck's formula, its forequarters and the pose of the head suggest exactly the action of shrinking self-conscious modesty of the "Venus de Medici". The drawing of the figure, on the other hand, is firm and elastic, with a considerable grip on reality.' </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.593-4, reproduced p.593 </span>
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