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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 20 | $****** - ****** | FAMILLE D’ARLEQUIN | |||
May 8, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | FAMILLE D’ARLEQUIN |
Works on Paper
29.5 x 21.5 cm (11.61 x 8.46 in)
Gouache and ink on card laid down on cradled panel
Signed Picasso (lower left)
Private Collection, Cologne (acquired from the artist in 1910)
Private Collection, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1929 and sold: Sotheby's, London, November 25, 1959, lot 61)
M. Knoedler & Co., London & New York (acquired at the above sale)
Joan Whitney Payson, Manhasset, NY (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, United States (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, May 8, 2007, lot 21)
Acquired at the above sale
Cologne, Kunstverein, Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts in Kölner Privatbesitz, 1957, no. 99 (incorrectly catalogued as oil on canvas)
Portland, Maine, Westbrook College, Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art, 1977-92 (on extended loan)
Kyoto, Municipal Museum & Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, The Joan Whitney Payson Collection: from Goya to Wyeth, 1980, no. 65
Barcelona, Museu Picasso & Bern, Kunstmuseum, Picasso 1905-1906, 1992, no. 27, illustrated in color in the catalogue
West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery of Art, Pablo Picasso, A Vision, 1994, no. 6
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts & Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906, 1997-98, no. 123, illustrated in color in the catalogue (exhibited in Boston only)
Portland, Maine, Museum of Art (on periodic loan)
Waterville, Maine, Colby College (on periodic loan)
Portland, Maine, Museum of Art, Picasso's Human Vision, 1999
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Picasso's World of Children, 2000
Barcelona, Museu Picasso & Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda Picasso et le cirque, 2006-07, no. 50, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Gaya Nuño & Juan Antonio, Picasso, Barcelona, 1950, discussed p. 13
Wilhelm Boeck & Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso, New York, 1955, p. 132
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1957, vol. I, no. 244, illustrated pl. 109
Sir Anthony Blunt & Phoebe Pool, Picasso. The Formative Years, London, 1962, no. 138
Pierre Daix & Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1966, no. XII.11, illustrated p. 260
François Daulte, "Nouveau Musée dans le Maine" in L'Oeil, Paris, October 1978, illustrated p. 51
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo (1881-1907), Barcelona, 1980, no. 1034, illustrated p. 401
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907, Barcelona, 1985, no. 1034, illustrated p. 401
Signed Picasso (lower left)
Gouache and ink on card laid down on cradled panel
11 5/8 by 8 1/2 in.
29.5 by 21.5 cm
Executed in 1905.
