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Double Study of the Left Eye (Academic Study)
La Coruña, 1892-93
Charcoal on paper
24 x 31.6 cm
Museo Picasso Málaga. Gift of Christine Ruiz Picasso
When Picasso produced this work, he was eleven years old and living with his family in the city of A Coruña, where he studied at the Instituto da Guarda.
‘Picasso’s output in A Coruña is impressive not only because of the abundance and diversity of his inspiration, but also because even then he used the most varied techniques: pencil, pen, watercolour, inks, oil… With the same incredible speed, in just a few days he filled an album, and his hand never betrayed the amazing mobility of his eye.
It was precisely in A Coruña where Don José solemnly handed over his brushes to Pablo […]. Picasso often recounted that scene, which made a deep impression on him: 'He gave me his paints and brushes and from that moment on he never painted again’. *
- Quoted from Pierre Cabanne in: CABANNE, Pierre. El siglo de Picasso: I. El nacimiento del Cubismo. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1982, p. 47.
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What was happening in 1892-93?
- The Ruiz Picasso family moves to Corunna, living at Calle Payo Gómez 14, 2º D.
- Paul Gauguin paints 'Mata Mua'.
- The British writer J. R. R. Tolkien is born.
- France occupies the kingdom of Dahomey, now the Republic of Benin.