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Works listed in Malaga (1896-1901)

The Works that Picasso produced during his stay in Malaga, in the summer of 1896, are a continuation of his attempts to achieve a less academic style of painting, using an increasingly broader, livelier and more spontaneous brush stroke and executing bold studies of light and colour.

Portrait of Aunt Pepa (1896). Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 50.5 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.010, Z.XXI, 38) Signed above on the left hand side: Pablo Ruiz Picasso

The painting depicts Josefa Ruiz Blasco, the painter’s aunt, the eldest of the eleven Ruiz-Blasco siblings. She was famous in her family for her difficult temperament, her religious zeal and her eccentricities. From 1880 onwards she lived at the home of Uncle Salvador. This represents one of the fundamental works dating from the formative years of Picasso.

Landscapes painted from life, in the surroundings of the family estate at Llanes (1836).

Paintings in oil on canvas or panel, belonging to the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

Mountainous landscape. 60.7 x 82,5 cm (MPB 110.008)
Study for Mountainous landscape. 28.2 x 39.8 cm (MPB 110.081)
Landscape with thickets. 10.2 x 15.6 cm (MPB 110.177)

 

Landscape. 13.6 x 22.2 cm (MPB 110.225)
Landscape with mountains. 13.7 x 22.1 cm (MPB 110.222)
Mountain landscape 10.2 x 15.5 cm (MPB 110.174)

 


Mountainous landscape. 10.1 x 15.5 cm (MPB 110.150)
Landscape with trees 10 x 15.6 cm (MPB 110.158)
Landscape with thickets 10.1 x 15.5 cm (MPB 110.186)

 

Woodland landscape and mountain . 10 x 15.5 cm (MPB 110.163)
Path between bushes. 9.9 x 15.6 cm (MPB 110.138)
Thickets. 10.1 x 15.7 cm (MPB 110.142)

 

 

Landscape with trees . 9.8 x 15.6 cm (MPB 110.192)
Landscape. 13.7 x 22.2 cm (MPB 110.224)
Mountainous landscape. 9.7 x 15.7 cm (MPB 110.127)


Subset and flock of sheep.

9.4 x 15.5 cm (MPB 110.124)
Trees. 9.2 x 15.6 cm (MPB 110.134)

Village house (1895-1896). Oil on panel, 13.6 x 22 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.221)

 

 


Kitchen of the Oil Press at the Llanes Country Estate (1896). Oil on panel,13.7 x 22.1 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.207)
Dated Malaga J. 96, in pen, at the bottom on the left hand side.

 

Kitchen (1896). Oil on panel, 9,9 x 15,5 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.183)

 

  


Moored boat.  Oil on panel, 9.9 x 15.5 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.183 R)
On the reverse side of the painting “Kitchen”.

 

 

Bull and bull’s head (1896). Oil on panel, 13.7 x 22 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.210)
Dated Malaga June 96, in pen, at the bottom on the left hand side.


  

Bull (1896). Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 26.4 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.098)

 

 

Ass (1896). Oil on canvas, 28.5 x 37 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.933)
The Museu Picasso, in its catalogue of the collection (1985), lists this work as having been executed in Malaga, in the summer of 1896. Palau, in his “Picasso alive” (1980, issue 258), maintains that it was done in Horta de Ebro, in the summer of 1898.

 

 

Fisherman and children (1896). Oil on panel, 10 x 15.7 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.159)

 

 

Country folk in the country (1896). Oil on panel, 10 x 15.5 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.139)

 

 

Scene in a garden (1896). Oil on panel, 9.9 x 15.6 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.128) 

 

 

 

The port (1896). Oil on panel, 10 x 15.4 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.171)
Listed as executed in Malaga by the Museu Picasso in the catalogue notes for the exhibition “ Picasso’s Landscapes 1890-1912” (1994, nº 55), rectifying its catalogue of the collection (1985).

 

 
Sketch: Saint preaching (1896). Oil on panel, 15.4 x 10 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.171 R)
We assume it was executed in Malaga as it was painted on the reverse side of the previous painting.

 

 

 

Bust of woman, in profile (1896). Conté pencil on panel, 10 x 15.6 cm. Museu Picasso, Barcelona (MPB 110.158 R).
Dated, in pen, Malaga 96.
Drawn on the reverse side of the work "Landscape with trees" (MPB 110.158)

 

Pages from a drawing book in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona (13 x 18.5 cm, MPB 110.918)

Some of the pages of this drawing book have been taken as executed in Malaga. Although we believe that the same can be assumed for many others (in particular, sketches of sailing boats, horses, a bullfighting scene, an ox, hens and a rabbit) we refrain from reviewing these as no opinion or study has been published that can verify this.

Portrait of Dona Inés, the artist’s grandmother, and sailing boats . Lead pencil on paper (MPB 111.378)
Signed in the centre P.Ruiz.

The catalogue notes for the Museu collection (1986) list it in Barcelona, but Rafael Inglada (“ Dictionary Malaga-Picasso, Picasso-Malaga”, 2005 p.73) claims that Picasso executed this in his native city, when he was staying at his grandmother’s house in the Plaza Mitjana.

 

 

Two figures in the country. Oil on paper (MPB 110.117)
Listed originally as executed in Barcelona, the catalogue notes for the exhibition “Picasso’s Landscapes 1890-1912” (Museu Picasso, 1994, nº 52) regard the work as having been painted in Malaga.

 

Three studies (MPB 111.389 R, 111.390 and 111.391 R)
The last of these bears a close relation to “Two figures in the country”; the first two depict the same central figure.

Composition on the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.  Lead pencil and pen on paper  (MPB 110.117 R)
We assume this to have been executed in Malaga, as it appears on the reverse side of the work “Two figures in the country”.


The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.  Lead pencil on paper (MPB 111.391 R)
This drawing, previously in the drawing book, reiterates the same theme. On the reverse side we find one of the studies made for the painting “Two figures in the country”.