Man with Lollipop by Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Man with Lollipop, 1938

Oil on paper mounted on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.69

The coarse stubble on the man's chin matches the basket-weave pattern on his hat and striped jersey, an effect that Picasso first used in 1938. He painted this work while vacationing in the small hilltop village of Mougins, a few miles inland from Cannes, on the Cote d'Azur. It is one of a series depicting locals or tourists- mostly men- sucking lollipops.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.