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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.141
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Studies of a Rooster
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1896
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5361

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalk on beige antique laid paper
Dimensions
27.5 x 43 cm (10 13/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.l.: P. Ruiz
  • label: back of frame, typed: Kahnweiler showed the photograph / in September 1953 to Picasso in / Vallauris. On his return to Paris / Kahnweiler told me "Picasso has / said enough to enable you to sell / the drawing as authentical." / Picasso (Pablo Ruiz) / Des coqs, c. 1896 [crossed out, and added in graphite: c. 1899], signed P. Ruiz / concerning the date see Barr: / Picasso, page 14
  • inscription: back of frame (on separate small piece of brown paper), graphite: c. 1898-99 / at age of 17 / $500.00 [crossed out]
  • inscription: back of frame, graphite: Picasso / "Roosters"
  • inscription: verso, red chalk, right: Pablo Ruiz Picasso vers 1895

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heinz Schultz. [Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York]; Richard B. Sisson (before 1965), bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

NOTE: Heinz Schultz seems to have been associated with the Borgenicht Gallery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.141
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. 1457, repr.
  • John Richardson, ed., Picasso: An American Tribute, exh. cat., Public Education Association and Chanticleer Press (New York, 1962), no. 1, ill.
  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 22, fig. 5
  • Willard E. Misfeldt, "The Theme of the Cock in Picasso's Oeuvre", Art Journal (Winter 1968-1969), XXVIII, no. 2, pp. 146-154, 165, p. 147, fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • Picasso: An American Tribute, The New Gallery, New York, 04/25/1962 - 05/12/1962
  • Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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