Sunday, December 22, 10:15 – 11am
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
Each month, members of our education, research, and curatorial teams present their ongoing research on the collection to members. These talks are a great way to learn more about your favorite artists in the collection.
Throughout his career, Pablo Picasso was preoccupied with the female nude. The motif became the primary vehicle for his experimentations with form in the summer of 1906, exemplified in Girl with a Goat, which hangs in Room 23. The standing female body comprises the vertical axis of the composition, but there is more than one figure—and more than one nude—in this work. Join Barnes research fellow Naina Saligram for a close-looking session that considers the roles of all three protagonists in this scene and investigates Picasso’s approach to representing gender in 1906.
This talk will take place in Room 23 of the collection galleries.
Pablo Picasso. Girl with a Goat, 1906. The Barnes Foundation, BF250. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York