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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.121
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Sheet of Studies [containing cubist still-lifes and a study of a hand]
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1919
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295916

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white laid paper
Dimensions
31.9 x 21.9 cm (12 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Picasso
  • inscription: On verso in graphite, along upper left edge: 8 1/4 x 12 1/4 ; along lower left edge: NY7214 ; along lower right edge: 2057

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.121
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Editions Cahiers d'art (Paris, 1932-1978), vol. 6, no. 1366, pl. 163
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat. no. 62, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 191, fig. 162, pp. 148, 371, 375
  • Christopher Green, Cubism and War: The Crystal in the Flame, exh. cat., Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona and Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A. (Barcelona, Spain, 2016), pp. 151, 171, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings by Picasso, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/20/1981 - 04/05/1981; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/29/1981 - 06/14/1981; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 07/11/1981 - 08/23/1981
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Cubism and War. The Crystal in the Flame, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 10/20/2016 - 01/29/2017

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