Descripción
He stayed there for a few months, which gave him time to explore other parts of Italy and to come into contact with classical art.
During his stay, Picasso met Igor Stravinsky, the brilliant composer, with whom he maintained a fruitful relationship, and of whom he drew several excellent pencil portraits in classical style. The drawing reproduced on this poster is an excellent example of this keen and penetrating skill.
Talking about this work, William Boeck says that Pablo was more concerned with the contour than with anything else “[…] almost forgetting the model […]. Here we see Picasso’s incomparable skill […] with the pencil, a skill he never lost […] drawing contours, the stroke never exceeds the established limits, but with sure movements and pauses he achieves complicated spatial effects”. In this excellent portrait, Picasso, with an Ingresian touch, shows us an Igor Stravinsky of serene majesty, still and imposing, almost hieratic.
