Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973
Tanagra with drapery, 1951
White earthenware, thrown, modeled, painted with slips
6 3/4 inches tall
Provenance
Galerie Madoura, Vallauris; Estate Picasso, Jacqueline Picasso; Prof. Dr. Roland Doschka; private possession, Hessen.Exhibitions
Balingen 1989 (Stadthalle), Pablo Picasso. Portrait - Figurine - Skulptur, p. 137 with full-page color ill. (there dated "1949"); S'Hertogenbosch 1992 (Museum voor de Hedendagse Kunst, Het Kruithuis), Terra Sculptura - Terra Pictura. keramiek van de 'klassieke modernen'. Braque, Chagall, Cocteau, Dufy, Miró, Picasso, p. 184 f. with full-page color ill.; London/New York 1998/1999 (Royal Academyof Arts, London, September 17 – December 16, 1998; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, March 3 – June 6, 1999), Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay, cat. nr. 94, with color ill.Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miro, Noguchi, and Picasso 1943-1963, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, September 21, 2013 - January 19, 2014; illustrated in catalogue, Cat. 70, p. 209
Literature
Verve, Revue Artistique et Littéraire, vol. VII, nos 25, 26, Paris 1951, with ill.Royal Academyof Arts, London, September 17 – December 16, 1998; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, March 3 – June 6, 1999), Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay, cat. nr. 94, with color ill.
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