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Picasso in Prints / Picasso in prent, exhibition booklet, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2004

MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN 29 mei / 8 aug 2004 Informatie/information ------------------------------------------------------------------ PICASSO IN PRENT / IN PRINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------ SPAANSE MEESTERTEKENINGEN 1500 – 1900 SPANISH MASTER DRAWINGS 1500 – 1900 RIBERA MURILLO GOYA ------------------------------------------------------------------ MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN 29 mei / 8 aug 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ PICASSO IN PRENT / IN PRINTS Is there anybody who doesn’t know Picasso? Countless books have been written about him, and many stories are told about him. His work can be seen at important museums and sculpture gardens, and sometimes even on street corners. But who really knows Picasso? His work is so vast that it can hardly be surveyed. In addition to thousands of paintings, sculptures and ceramics he left

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Ambroise Vollard

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Title:Ambroise Vollard

Artist:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)

Date:1915

Medium:Graphite on paper

Dimensions:18 3/8 × 12 5/8 in. (46.7 × 32.1 cm)

Classification:Drawings

Credit Line:The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947

Object Number:47.140

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): Picasso / Paris Aout 1915

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1915–d. 1939; purchased from the artist in August 1915 for Fr 500; his estate, from 1939); [Martin Fabiani, Paris]; [André Weil, New York, until 1947; sold in December 1947, through John Rewald, to MMA]

New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition," May 22–September 8, 1957, unnumbered cat. (p. 48).

Art Institute of Chicago. "Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition," October 29–December 8, 1957, unnumbered cat.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Pablo Picasso

Description

Pablo Picasso
LES DÉJEUNERS
signed Picasso (lower right) and dated 26. 7. 61. V (upper left)
coloured crayons on paper
27 by 43cm.
10 5/8 by 16 7/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired in 1961)
Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1965

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Galerie d'Eendt, Picasso, gouaches en tekeningen 1959-1964, 1965, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso:œuvres de 1961 à 1962, Paris, 1968, vol. 20, no. 106, illustrated pl. 54
Douglas Cooper, Pablo Picasso: Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1962, illustrated in colour pl. 128
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture - The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 61-171, illustrated p. 164

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the over-mount along the edges of the recto. The upper edge is perforated (not visible when framed). Apart from a very small stain to the left of the knee of the seated ma