Harlequin (Picasso)

Harlequin is a painting of 1913 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It can loosely be considered a portrait of a harlequin, but through the lens of Picasso's cubist style, in which "Picasso paints a figure from several angles at once, dividing it into rectangles and circles". The painting is considered an example of "synthetic cubism", a development from Picasso's earlier "geometric cubism".

Within "synthetic cubism" elements of collages were included and the image appeared slightly closer to reality than the abstractions of geometric cubism. The painting hangs in the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands.