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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.138
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Plaster Head and Bowl of Fruit
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1933
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227738

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.3 x 92.1 cm (28 7/8 x 36 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Picasso XXXIII

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre Matisse Gallery ( - 1937), sold; to Joseph Pulitzer Jr., (1937-1966), gift; to Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.138
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 77-79, fig. 15, ill. (plate section, b/w)
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 83, fig. 77, ill. (color)
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 228, p. 199, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 214, ill.
  • John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, 2021), p. 2 of plates, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/09/2016

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