Pablo Picasso paintings by 1890s

Picasso's training under his father began before 1890. His progress can be traced in the collection of early works now held by the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist's beginnings. During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun. The academic realism apparent in the works of the mid-1890s is well displayed in The First Communion (1896), a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola. In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called "without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting."

The picador House in the field Plaster male torso Academical study Bust of young man
The picador
1890
House in the field
1893
Plaster male torso
1893
Academical study
1895
Bust of young man
1895
Female nude from back Portrait of aunt Pepa The barefoot girl The old fisherman Artist's mother
Female nude from back
1895
Portrait of aunt Pepa
1895
The barefoot girl
1895
The old fisherman
1895
Artist's mother
1896
First Communion Head of a child Portrait of the Artist's Mother Quarries Self-Portrait
First Communion
1896
Head of a child
1896
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
1896
Quarries
1896
Self-Portrait
1896
The altarboy Advertisement for tavern -Four cats Science and Charity Head of a Man in El Greco style La chata
The altarboy
1896
Advertisement for tavern
Four cats
1897
Science and Charity
1897
Head of a Man in El Greco style
1899
La chata
1899
Lola Portrait of Casagemas Portrait of Josep Cardona 1899-1900 The Artist's Sister Lola
Lola Portrait of Casagemas
1899
Portrait of Josep Cardona
1899
The Artist's
Sister Lola
1899-1900