Pablo Picasso Spanish, active France, 1881–1973
Man with a Pipe
1915
Pablo Picasso's 'Man with a Pipe' ('Homme à la pipe', 1915) is a synthetic-Cubist portrait in which the sitter's body is reassembled from flat, painted facets that mimic collage papers — stripes, grids, wallpaper patterns — while a clay pipe curls unmistakably from the centre. Painted during the First World War in Paris, it is a key example of Picasso's late Cubist experimentation and is held today by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago