Portrait of an Adolescent

With his move to Paris in 1904, Picasso's palette gradually lightened. Figures from the world of the traveling theater and the circus, full of the joy of life, replaced the melancholy themes of the Blue Period (1900–1904). This work belongs to the new phase. Many of the drawings of those years combined techniques - ink and wash or wash and watercolor - and were usually preliminary sketches for det…