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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.321
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Portrait of Fonte
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1899-1900
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296395

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and oil-based wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 46.8 x 27.5 cm (18 7/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, l.c.: P. Ruiz Picasso
  • inscription: charcoal, lower left: Fonte; blue crayon, lower right: Fonte

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Perls Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.321
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 739, fig. 398
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 65, repr.
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 250

Exhibition History

  • Modern French Art, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, 01/05/1952 - 01/12/1952
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967

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