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Currently not on display

Pablo Picasso

Málaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973

Face

Date 1928
Materials and Techniques lithograph
Size(cm) 20.4 x 14.2
Inscriptions Signed lower right (outside): Picasso
Standard ref. Geiser 243; Mourlot (Vol.1) XXIII; Bloch 95
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1977-0003

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York; Purchased by the NMWA, 1978.

Exhibition History

1986
Picasso, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 4 October 1986 - 3 November 1986, cat. no. 53, repr.
1987
Picasso, Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, 8 August 1987 - 2 September 1987, cat. no. 54
1991
L'œuvre gravé et lithographiéde Pablo Picasso, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 6 April 1991 - 5 May 1991, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, May 17 - June 9 1991, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, June 13 - June 30 1991, cat. no. 28, repr.
1995
The Love and the Anguish - The Road to Guernica, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 31 October 1995 - 17 December 1995, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 23 December 1995 - 10 March 1996, cat. no. 74, repr.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 62

Bibliography

1933
Geiser, Bernhard. Picasso peintre graveur, catalogue illustré de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1899-1931. Bern, Chez l'auter, 1933, no. 243, repr.
1939
Roger-Marx, Claude. La gravure originale en France de Manet à nos jours. Paris, Hypérion, 1939, pl. 96.
1949
Mourlot, Fernand. Picasso lithographe, 1919-1947. tome 1, Monte-Carlo, André Sauret, 1949, no. 23, repr.
1968
Bloch, Georges. Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967. Bern, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1968, p. 46, no. 95, repr.
1970
Mourlot, Fernand. Picasso lithographs. Didry, Jean, trans. Boston, Boston Book and Art Publisher, 1970, p. 9, no. 23.
1978
Yamada, Chisaburo. Sekai no auction ni erabu "kuso no bijutsukan" 37. Geijutsu Shincho. vol. 29, no. 4, Tokyo, Shicho-sha, April, 1978, p. 142. (in Japanese)
1979
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 12 (1977), 1979, New Acquisitions (Catalogue). pp. 22-24, repr.
1981
Yaegashi, Haruki. Graphic Works. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1981 (Pablo Picasso, 7), no. 56. (in Japanese)
1986
Picasso (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Gunnma, ed. Takasaki, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunnma, 1986, pp. 81, 146, 186, cat. no. 53, repr.
1987
Picasso (exh. cat.). Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, ed. [Sapporo], The Hokkaido Shimbun, 1987, p. 124, cat. no. 54, repr.
1991
L'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Pablo Picasso (exh. cat.). Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, eds. [Tokyo], Yomiuri Shimbun, 1991, p. 36, cat. no. 28, col. repr.
1992
The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p. 64, cat. no. 61, col. repr
1995
Picasso: the Love and the Anguish—the Road to Guernica (exh. cat.). Régnier, Gérard; Ocana, Maria-Teresa; Kanki, Keizo; Otaka, Yasujiro. [Tokyo], Tobu Museum of Art, 1995, pp. 206-207, cat. no. 74, repr.
1995
Pablo Picasso, Die illustrierten Bücher (exh. cat.). Kunstmuseum, Basel, 17 December 1995 - 10 March 1996; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 28 June 1996 - 22 September 1996. Ostfildern-Ruit, Gerd Hatje, 1995, cat. no. 16.

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