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This 2-year-old Picasso is taking the art world by storm

She’s a pint-sized Picasso!

Two-year-old Lola June may still be in diapers, but the tot is already taking the New York art world by storm, as she has created paintings that have sold to wealthy collectors for hundreds of dollars each.

She even has her own gallery show, as a solo exhibition dubbed “Hope,” featuring 37 canvas pieces by the youngster, opened at the Chashama gallery in Union Square Sunday.

More than 12 of Lola’s acrylic paintings priced between $300 and $1,600 have been snapped up, according to the exhibition’s curator.

“It’s an honor to be her parent,” said Lola’s mother, Lucille Javier, a hair colorist who is originally from California. “She teaches me to be a better human.”

The precocious painter has garnered the respect of discerning art collectors with her paintings, which, instead of winding up on her family fridge, are ending up on the walls in high-end New York homes.

Celebrity dermatologist Dr. David Colbert recently purchased two after spotting them in the Chashama gallery window.

“I was walking down the street and I looked in the window and thought ‘These pieces are really great’, ” he told The Post.

“I remember asking ‘Who is the artist?’ and there was a little girl sitting on someone’s lap and they pointed to her and I thought ‘Oh, it’s the mother’. ”

Colbert, the co-founder of NYDG Wellness Clinic, described himself as “somewhat” of an art collector and spent time researching Lola’s techniques before purchasing two pieces for $600 and $250.

“I thought her work was from the heart. I watched her smile when she was painting. I thought ‘This has got a little dash of Jackson Pollock and a dash of Cy Twombly’, ” Colbert said.

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A piece by Lola June
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“I already know I’m going to be putting her next to some interesting artists.”

The talented toddler’s artistic flair was first spotted one evening by Pajtim Osmanaj, an artist friend of Lola’s mother’s, as the toddler scribbled with crayons as the pair had dinner.

Osmanaj was so taken by the youngster’s “awe-inspiring abstract composition” that he eventually wrote to nonprofit arts organization Chashama, petitioning for Lola to have her own exhibition.

“Her lines were so good. They reminded me of [American painter] Cy Twombly,” Osmanaj, a Kosovo-born artist, told The Post.

“I’m not treating the work like a kid’s work. I’m treating it like anything else.”

After spotting one of Lola’s paintings in Osmanaj’s studio several months ago, art consultant and Metropolitan Museum of Art patron Sana Rezwan also dropped $700 to add a piece to her collection, according to The Cut.

Chashama founder Anita Durst said people had been “astounded” by the toddler’s work.

Pajtim Osmanaj (left) and Lola June
Pajtim Osmanaj (left) and Lola JuneMatthew McDermott

“When we saw Lola’s application we thought it was a beautiful and brilliant idea to show a child’s art,” she said. “People see the work and they are astounded by the brilliance.”

“We never forced her,” her mother, Lucille, added. “If she’s down to do it, then she’ll do it.”

So does Lola understand her critical success? Not exactly.

Lucille said Lola treats the paintings like her friends, kissing them when she wakes up in the morning, and became distressed when Osmanaj took them away to be framed for the exhibition.

But after opening night the young maestro woke up and told her mother she wanted to see the “painting house,” and the duo went back to the gallery.

“In a very short time she created a large amount of artwork, which had then grabbed attention of others who compared her work to other modern abstract artists,” Osmanaj said.

“I believe it is not always necessary to have years of experience to create,” he added. “With Lola’s art I want to create a show which makes people to question their selves and the difference between a master painter and a young child.”

Added Colbert, “Once I saw the smile on her face while she was painting, I was thinking, ‘Wow this is a little child art prodigy’.”