Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2023.

Picasso's 1923 Bal de Mardi Gras

Artist Anonymous

DateMarch 18, 1956

MediumChromogenic print and ink

Dimensions10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of the Walter P. Chrysler Papers, Jean Outland Chrysler Library

Object number2021.6

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DescriptionThis is a photograph of Pablo Picasso's 1923 painting, "Decoration for a Mardi-Gras Bal" (Chrysler Museum object 71.689). Two linear figures stand side-by-side on a color-blocked diamond shape with white, blue, and brown sections. The figure on the left is rendered in vertical and horizontal lines; it holds a fish in its right hand, and its feet have prongs like tridents. The figure on the right has triangles radiating from its body, and a large diamond-shaped belly. In its right hand, it holds a sign reading "BAL" in capital letters. The background is tan with black horizontal lines. On this photograph, an inscription in blue ink is written above the right shoulder of the figure on the left.