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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1952.35
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Man with a Pipe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1911
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299994

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray oil wash on cream wove paper
Dimensions
64.2 x 46.7 cm (25 1/4 x 18 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, graphite, l.l.: Picasso

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of the artist. [Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris (inv. 1733)]; [Most probably Lot 95, 4th Kahnweiler sale 7-8 May 1923, purchased by Grassat syndicate?]. [Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, see note.]. [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York](1946-1952), sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1952


NOTE: Alfred Flechtheim was a member of the Grassat syndicate see https://doi.org/10.57011/PEKY5614.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Annie S. Coburn Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
1952.35
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Editions Cahiers d'art (Paris, 1932-1978), vol. 2, no. 280, pl. 136
  • Fifteen Drawings [by Picasso], Pantheon Books (Paris, 1946), pl. 15
  • Cubism, auct. cat., Buchholz Gallery (New York, 1949), no. 40
  • Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations 1913, Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc. (New York, 1949), repr. p. 34
  • Pablo Picasso: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, auct. cat., Curt Valentin Gallery (New York, 1952), cat. no. 21, repr.
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat. no. 38, repr.
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, pp. 49, 52, fig. 38, ill. (b/w)
  • Picasso and Drawing, exh. cat. (New York: Pace Wildenstein, April 28, 1995-June 2, 1995), pp. 12-14, pl. 15
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 238, ill. p. 239
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Pepe Karmel, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2003), p. 18, fig. 10
  • Bernice Rose, ed., Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism, exh. cat., Pace Wildenstein (New York, 2007), repr. p. 91

Exhibition History

  • Cubism, Buchholz Gallery, New York, 04/05/1949 - 04/30/1949
  • Pablo Picasso: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 02/19/1952 - 03/15/1952
  • Picasso, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 05/20/1957 - 12/01/1957
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • Master Drawings by Picasso, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/20/1981 - 04/05/1981; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/29/1981 - 06/14/1981; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 07/11/1981 - 08/23/1981
  • Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
  • Instrument of Invention: Picasso and Drawing from 1907-1938, Pace Wildenstein Gallery (57th St.), New York, 04/28/1995 - 06/20/1995
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
  • Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2016 - 01/08/2017
  • Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024

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