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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.56
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
The Blind Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1903
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
53.9 x 35.8 cm (21 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
framed: 77 x 59 cm (30 5/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l. r.: Picasso 19[03]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly [D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris]. Possibly B. Schüler, Bochum. [Galerie Pierre, Paris], sold; to [René Gimpel, Paris], sold; to Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1930, by exchange; to [Edouard Jonas, Paris and New York], 1936. Valentine Gallery, New York, sold; to Maurice Wertheim, New York, 1936, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

NOTE: Provenance derived from a letter from The Toledo Museum of Art, 31 August 1978, in the curatorial file, and "Degas to Matisse: The Maurice Wertheim Collection," John O'Brian; Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1988.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.56
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. 1, no. 172, pl. 81
  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Today's Collectors: Modern Milestones", Art News (June 1946), vol. XLV, no. 4, repr. in b/w p. 31
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX, 1962), p. 40, pl. 15
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), checklist no. 16
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 250
  • John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no. 25, pp. 109-111, repr. p. 110
  • John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, Random House (New York, NY, 1991), vol. 1, repr. p. 277
  • Norman Mailer, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, 1995), ill. p. 76
  • Sarah Symmons, Goya, Phaidon (London, England, 1998), p. 325, fig. 209 (color)
  • Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6, p. 302
  • Annie Cohen-Solal, Un Étranger Nommé Picasso, Fayard (France, 2021), p. 3, plate section, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Manet to Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 06/13/1962 - 09/02/1962
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993
  • 32Q: 1220 Wertheim, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/15/2018 - 06/11/2018

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