Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso]
1901
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on cardboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 68.5 x 95.7 cm (26 15/16 x 37 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1996.129.1.b
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Catalogue Raisonné
Zervos, Vol. 6, no. 332
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Copyright
© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Wilhelm Uhde, 1906; (Galerie Caspari, Munich); sold 1915 to Hertha Koenig [1884-1976], Munich; [1] sold 1950 to (Justin K. Thannhauser, New York); [2] W. Somerset Maugham, St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 April 1962, no. 26); purchased by (Hector Brame) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1996.
[1] Christian Geelhaar, Picasso. Wegbereiter und Foerderer seines Aufsteigs 1899-1939, Zurich, c. 1993, pp. 73-75.
[2] Correspondence in the Thannhauser files at ZADIK [Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels, Cologne], transcriptions in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1901
Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1901 (verso only).
1913
Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, 1913.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 194 (recto only).
1978
Aspects of Twentieth Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978-1979, 21, 116, no. 8 (recto only).
1980
Picasso, The Saltimbanques. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980-1981, 15, 55, 87, pl. 7, fig. 72, cat. no. 38 (recto only).
1997
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1997-1998.
2001
A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 8, as The Death of Harlequin.
Bibliography
1932
Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. 33 vols. Paris, 1932-1978.
Inscriptions
lower right in blue paint: Picasso; lower right verso in pen and black ink: Picasso
Wikidata ID
Q64618764