Girl with a Goat (La Jeune fille à la chèvre)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Picasso spent the summer of 1906 in Gósol, a remote mountain village in northeast Spain. Here he painted the enigmatic Girl with Goat , along with several other canvases that marked a new direction in his art. His color palette, which had been dominated by blue, shifted to roses and pinks, and he began incorporating subtle signs of classical antiquity. The boy with the water jug references a figure from Greek statuary, while the girl evokes a classical Venus arranging her hair.

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