Bather

Pablo Picasso · winter 1908-09

You're looking at Bather, painted by Picasso in the winter of nineteen oh eight to nineteen oh nine. The figure is worked into blocks and wedges — these are the months when he was pushing hardest against the human body as a stable, describable thing, and the body is losing.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 51 1/8 x 38 1/8" (129.8 x 96.8 cm) · Credit Louise Reinhardt Smith Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Still Life with Liqueur Bottle, Windows

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair