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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.18
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Head of a Man with a Hat
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Tête d'homme
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1912
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299935

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Papier collé: charcoal, graphite, gray wash, laid paper and newsprint on white laid paper
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
57.3 x 47.9 cm (22 9/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite, in artist's hand: Picasso
  • stamp: verso, upper left: DOUANES EXPOSITION PARIS
  • inscription: bottom, graphite: 65

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris]. Tristan Tzara, Paris. [Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York], by 1964. Frederick B. Deknatel, Cambridge, Massachusetts; to Virginia Deknatel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

NOTE: Provenance from "Master Drawings by Picasso;" Gary Tinterow, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Virginia Deknatel in memory of Frederick B. Deknatel
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.18
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. 2, no. 400, pl. 190
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat.no. 40, repr.
  • 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. 299, p. 256, repr.
  • Christine Poggi, "Mallarmé, Picasso, and the Newspaper as Commodity", Collage: Critical Views, ed. Katherine Hoffman (Ann Arbor, 1989), repr. p.180
  • Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1992), repr. p. 149
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Jennifer Roberts and Jennifer Quick, Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 75, fig. 13

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
  • Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
  • Modern Art for Harvard: Prints and Drawings Acquired through the Generosity of Frederick B. and Virginia H. Deknatel, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/31/1995 - 08/06/1995
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/22/2012 - 08/18/2012
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/27/2016 - 11/01/2016

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