Bust, Modern Style

1949

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2006.57.25

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mourlot 1949-1964, no. 164, State only

  • Copyright

    © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

stamped in purple, lower right verso: Made in France

Wikidata ID

Q76349297

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