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Pablo Picasso

Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso], 1901

Not on View

Medium

oil on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 68.5 x 95.7 cm (26 15/16 x 37 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos, Vol. 6, no. 332

Accession Number

1996.129.1.b

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Copyright

Inscription

lower right in blue paint: Picasso; lower right verso in pen and black ink: Picasso

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

Brame, Hector
Galerie Caspari
Koenig, Hertha
Maugham, William Somerset
Mellon, Paul
Thannhauser, Justin K.

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.