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Pablo Picasso, Portrait
d'Ambroise Vollard (1910)
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In the portrait of the art dealer and connaisseur Ambroise Vollard, Picasso gives us another striking example of man in the state of ontological decomposition. Although Vollard's facial features can still be recognized, his head seems to be slowly crumbling into a heap of crystalline fragments, a process which has already obliterated his entire body. The pale colour emphasizing the head and providing a strong contrast to the monochrome of the dissolved and objectified body, the closed eye-lids and the rigidity of the features transform the portrait into the image of a corpse.
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