Introduction to Painting - A Boy with Pipe

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Introduction to Painting - A Boy with Pipe
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A Boy with Pipe was a representative work of
Pablo Picasso who was the founder of modern art.
It was a kind of canvas painting made in 1905,
measuring 10081cm. Being changed for many
times, this painting was finally collected by
German Jewish businessman Mr. Georg.
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Created in 1905, A Boy with Pipe was one of the
representative work of Picasso during rose
period. At that time Picasso was only 24
years old and he just settled in Montmartre near
to Paris of France. The very young boy in the
painting was described by Picasso as
"little Louis". He always went to Picasso's
studio to pass the time. Thus Picasso took him as
the model and created A Boy with Pipe. The
little Louis in this painting was dressed in blue
overalls, with his left hand holding a pipe,
wearing garland, and two big bouquets of flowers
as background. It looked quite like Chinese
painting. Experts believed that the garland
little Louis wore was added by Picasso
when completion. To some extent, it looked very
harmonious.
A Boy with Pipe was praised by critics with
mysteries in Mona Lisa by da Vinci and melancholy
in Doctor Gachet by Van Gogh. With the rise of
Picasso's fame, being changed for many
times, this painting was finally collected by
German Jewish businessman Mr . Georg at the
Sotheby's auction in London with the sky-high
price 104,160,000. This price set the highest
record in the world famous paintings auction
history. Sotheby's senior vice president
David Norman had a high opinion of the painting
and thought this work was very precious either in
the importance or the tactlessness and it could
be said to be the best work among private
collections of works. Norman said, "All the
people were attracted deeply by this
painting with poet-like artistic conception and
ravishing mood."
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