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Monday, 20 October 2014 14:21

Early Picasso Portrait Heads to Auction in Stockholm

Pablo Picasso's 'Portrait d’homme, Dionís Renart,' 1899. Pablo Picasso's 'Portrait d’homme, Dionís Renart,' 1899. Stockholms Auktionsverk

An early portrait by Pablo Picasso recently rediscovered in Sweden will go up for auction at Stockholms Auktionsverk this week. "Portrait d’homme, Dionís Renart" was painted in 1899 when the artist was just 18 years old. It depicts his good friend at the time, fellow-artist Dionís Renart i Garcia with whom he reveled in bohemian Barcelona’s cafe Els Quatre Gats. The painting is signed with his early moniker P. Ruiz P.

The identification of the portrait’s subject is a recent feat, perhaps first recorded in the small catalogue produced to accompany the portrait’s sale in Stockholm on October 22nd.

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