The Jester

Pablo Picasso · 1905 (cast 1950s)

You're looking at The Jester — a sculpture by Picasso, nineteen oh five (cast nineteen fiftyies). Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal. You can pick out the carved figure.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 15 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 8 5/8" (38.7 x 34.8 x 21.9 cm) · Credit Louise Reinhardt Smith Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 502: Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Figurines, Jeannette (I), The Serenity of the Scholar, Untitled (Nomsa with Africa), Le Pistolero (The Gunman), Untitled

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