The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro

Pablo Picasso · Horta de Sant Joan, summer 1909

This is The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, made in Spain in the summer of nineteen oh nine, the summer that produced Picasso's first fully faceted landscapes. The village is reduced to interlocking planes that treat buildings and hillside as one continuous surface.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 24 1/8 x 20 1/8" (61.5 x 51.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Grapes, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Mural Painting, Composition, Still Life with Flowers, The City, Jar, Bottle and Glass, 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