Bust, Modern Style, 1949

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 64.2 x 49.5 cm (25 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)

sheet: 65.5 x 49.7 cm (25 13/16 x 19 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Mourlot 1949-1964, no. 164, State only

Accession Number

2006.57.25

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Copyright

Inscription

upper left in graphite: Picasso 50/50; upper right in image: 8.3.49; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: NY 11633C / A14213; by later hand, lower right in red pencil: 50

Marks and Labels

stamped in purple, lower right verso: Made in France

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased 1968; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 178.

Bibliography

1949: Mourlot, Fernand. Picasso lithographe. 4 vol. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1949-1964.

1968: Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968.

1990: Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), undescribed. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.