- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1951.56
- People
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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
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- 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
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- Signed: l. r.: Picasso 19[03]
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
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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
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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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