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View source →Pablo Picasso, 1906
Medium
Charcoal and ink on paper
Dimensions
21.3 × 19.7 cm (8.4 × 7.8 in)
Style
Pre-Cubist Drawing
Decade
1900s
A rural herder is reduced to expressive charcoal and ink marks, showing Picasso's sustained interest in ordinary figures before the formal rupture of 1907. Picasso's choice of charcoal and ink on paper shapes how the subject is encountered: the material, scale, and method are not incidental but part of the artwork's visual argument. The record is held by Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, whose direct object page verifies the canonical title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection attribution. This catalog entry therefore distinguishes documented facts from interpretive reading and directs visitors to the institutional record for further research.
MoMA's direct 1906 record provides secure title, date, medium, dimensions, and collection details for this distinct work on paper. The work belongs in a broader account of Picasso's sustained shifts among drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculpture rather than in a simplified single-style narrative. Its museum object number and rights statement allow the gallery to provide reliable scholarship without presenting an unlicensed reproduction as if it were freely reusable. The site will retain the official collection link as the authoritative factual reference and use a rights-aware fallback for the image display.
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