''Acrobat and Young Harlequin'' (French: ''Acrobate et jeune Arlequin'') is a 1905

oil on canvas Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

painting by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

. Painted toward the end of

Picasso's Blue Period The Blue Period ( es, Período Azul) is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochrome, monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasio ...

and the outset of his Rose Period, the work displays characteristics of both, with its melancholic subject and its blue and rose palette. Picasso created the painting while at the

Le Bateau-Lavoir The Bateau-Lavoir ("Washhouse Boat") is the nickname of a building in the Montmartre district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris that is famous in art history as the residence and meeting place for a group of outstanding early 20th-century artist ...

, his home and studio in

Montmartre Montmartre ( , ) is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement. It is high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank. The historic district established by the City of Paris in 1995 is bordered by Rue Ca ...

, Paris. This painting by Picasso was published in the art and philosophy review ''Action'', in March 1920.Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d'Art, March 1920
Princeton University, Blue Mountain Project ''Acrobat and Young Harlequin'' forms part of the permanent collection of

The Barnes Foundation The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Penn ...

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

References

{{Pablo Picasso 1905 paintings Paintings by Pablo Picasso Collection of the Barnes Foundation Paintings of Montmartre