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A monochromatic black and white rendering of a young boy in profile from the chest up. He has short, dark hair and large dark eyes. His head is large compared to his slender body. The area toward which he looks, the left side of the composition, is almost completely black.

Head of Young Boy

August 13–15, 1944

Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

Spain

Picasso executed this drawing in his Paris studio in 1944, when the city had become a battlefield during World War II. The subject has been identified as a young French resistance fighter who was active during the last days of the war.

Brush and black ink and gray wash, with scraping and touches of pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper

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