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Inscription

lower right: -Piicasso [sic]

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Provenance

Marquis de Biron.[1] Chester H. Johnson, Chicago. Acquired 1930 by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed [née Elizabeth, later Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, d. 1980], Chicago and New York;[2] bequest 1981 to NGA.

[1] This "marquis de Biron" was possibly Guillaume de Gontaut Biron, marquis de Biron (1859-1939). See Les donateurs du Louvre, Paris, 1989: 220, and Georges Martin, Histoire et généalogie des maisons de Gontaut Biron et D'Hautefort, Lyon, 1995: 60.

[2] Provenance from the exhibition catalogue Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, Art Institute of Chicago, 1968: 112, and Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, translated by Phoebe Pool, Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900-1906, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1966: no. V23, 168.

Exhibition History

1936
Picasso: "Blue" and "Rose" Periods, 1901-1906, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, 1936, no. 11, repro., as Flowers.
1937
The Arts Club of Chicago, 1937.
1968
Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, Art Institute of Chicago, 1968, no. 3, repro.
1986
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 21, repro.
2011
Picasso, Miró, Dali. Giovani e Arrabbiati: La Nascita della Modernità. [Picasso, Miró, Dali. Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity], Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2011, no. 4.8, repro.

Bibliography

1942
Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. 33 vols. Paris, 1942-: 1(1957): no. 60.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 310, repro.

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