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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 1890	House in the field 1893	Plaster male torso 1893	Academical study 1895	Bust of young man 1895
Female nude from back 1895	Portrait of aunt Pepa 1895	The barefoot girl 1895	The old fisherman 1895	Artist's mother 1896

First Communion 1896	Head of a child 1896	Portrait of the Artist's Mother 1896	Quarries 1896	Self-Portrait 1896
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 1899	Portrait of Josep Cardona 1899	The Artist's Sister Lola 1899-1900