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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 8, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 35 | $****** - ****** | Mandoline et portée de musique |
paintings
97.2 x 130.2 cm (38.27 x 51.26 in)
oil and sand on canvas
signed and dated 'Picasso 23' (lower left)
Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris. Patrick C. Hill, Pecos, Texas (by 1939). G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh (by 1955). Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Lillian and James H. Clark, Dallas (by 1967). Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Meshulam Riklis, New York (acquired from the above, February 1972). By descent from the above to the late owner.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, November 1939-January 1940, p. 118, no. 182 (illustrated; titled Musical Instruments). New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings from Private Collections, May-September 1955, p. 34, no. 117 (illustrated in situ, p. 22; titled Musical Instruments). Kunsthaus Zurich, Thompson, Pittsburgh: Aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, October-November 1960, no. 171 (illustrated in color). Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Austellung Sammlung G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh/USA, December 1960-January 1961, no. 171 (illustrated in color; titled Stilleben mit Mandoline). The Hague, Haages Gemeentemuseum, Collectie Thompson uit Pittsburgh, February-April 1961. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, One Hundred Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection, May-August 1961 (illustrated in color; titled Still Life with Mandolin). Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Collezione G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh/USA, October-November 1961, no. 113 (illustrated in color). Fort Worth Art Center Museum and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: Two Concurrent Retrospective Exhibitions, February-March 1967, p. 95, no. 37 (illustrated, p. 49). New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 20th Century Masters, May-June 1994 (illustrated in color).
A.H. Barr, Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, 1946, p. 133 (illustrated; titled Musical Instrument). C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1952, vol. 5, no. 89 (illustrated, pl. 48). The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Neoclassicism II, 1922-1924, San Francisco, 1996, p. 123, no. 23-047 (illustrated). J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Cologne, 1999, pp. 399 and 518, no. 1431 (illustrated, p. 398; dated autumn 1923 and incorrectly listed as neither signed nor dated).
