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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | PLANT DE TOMATES |
paintings
92 x 73 cm (36.22 x 28.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed Picasso (lower right), dated 6 aout 44 on the reverse
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)
Stephen C. Clark, New York (acquired by 1948)
Mrs Susan Lefferts (née Clark), Middleburg, Virginia (granddaughter of the above; by descent in 1960. Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20th October 1976, lot 11)
Purchased at the above sale and thence by descent
New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, The First Post-War Showing in America of Recent Paintings by Picasso, New York, 1947
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, 1960, no. 93, illustrated in the catalogue
Harriet & Sidney Janis, Picasso. The Recent Years, 1939-1946, New York, 1946, illustrated pl. 29 (titled Tomato Plant Before the Window)
‘First Picasso Show in New York in 8 Years’, in PM, 14th January 1947, illustrated in photograph p. 10
Edward Alden Jewell, ‘Picasso Puts Spice Into City Galleries, in The New York Times, 29th January 1947, mentioned p. 23
‘Picasso: Late, Later, Latest’, in ARTnews, February 1947, mentioned
‘Picasso’, in Pictures on Exhibit, February 1947, mentioned
Ben Wolf, ‘Post-War Picasso’, in The Art Digest, 1st February 1947, mentioned
Carlyle Burrows, ‘Art of the Week: Work from France by Her Leading Artists’, in New York Herald Tribune, 2nd February 1947, mentioned
‘Show of New Picassos, in MKR’s Art Outlook, 3rd February 1947, mentioned
Benedikt F. Dolbin, ‘Picasso unangefochtener Diktator’, in Aufbau, 7th February 1947, mentioned
Robert M. Coates, ‘The Art Galleries, in The New Yorker, 8th February 1947, mentioned
Marion Summers, ‘Kootz Exhibits Ten New Works by Pablo Picasso’, in New York Daily Worker, 9th February 1947, illustrated
‘That Man Is Here Again’, in Time, 10th February 1947, mentioned
Joseph Solman, ‘Art’, in New Masses, 18th February 1947, illustrated
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1944 à 1946, Paris, 1963, vol. 14, no. 27, illustrated pl. 17 (illustrated in the unfinished state on 6th August 1944, no. 24, pl. 14 & on 9th August 1944, no. 25, pl. 15)
André Fermigier, Picasso, Paris, 1969, no. 195, illustrated p. 296
Michèle C. Cone, Artists under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution, Princeton, 1992, no. 68, illustrated p. 144
The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (exhibition catalogue), Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006-07, no. 333, catalogued p. 340; fig. 260, illustrated in a photograph p. 312
signed Picasso (lower right); dated 6 aout 44 on the reverse
oil on canvas
92 by 73cm.
36 1/4 by 28 3/4 in.
Painted in Paris between 6th and 9th August 1944.
