Boy Leading a Horse

Pablo Picasso · Paris, 1905-06

This is Boy Leading a Horse — a painting by Picasso, from Paris, nineteen oh five to nineteen oh six. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. Picasso was part of the cubism movement.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 7' 2 7/8" x 51 5/8" (220.6 x 131.2 cm) · Credit The William S. Paley Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 502: Study for Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Woman Plaiting Her Hair

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