Composition

1948

Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 64.2 x 49.7 cm (25 1/4 x 19 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 66 x 50.5 cm (26 x 19 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.162.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mourlot 1949-1964, no. 127, State only

  • Copyright

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

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Mayfair Fine Arts); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 28, 1973; 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. 173.

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

lower left in red chalk: Picasso; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 1502/PP

Wikidata ID

Q76349311

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