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Pablo Picasso, 1921
Technical Details
Medium
pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.8 x 32.1 cm (9 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Style
Neoclassicism
Decade
1920s
About This Work
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Mother and Child (Study for Mother and Child) as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1921, in pencil on paper. This drawing is a study for a painting of the same title, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago today. Around the time it was made, Picasso gravitated toward an austere, linear style evocative of Classical art and timeless subjects. Here, a mother wears a Greek robe, gazing down at her newborn who reaches upward. The composition is one of over ten versions that Picasso created around this time.
Mother and Child (Study for Mother and Child) is grouped here under Neoclassical Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
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Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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