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Pablo Picasso
Figure1930

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract painting in off-white and charcoal gray, with two stacked curving forms — a crescent arc above and an egg shape below — connected by an S-curve, on a dark ground
Verso of a framed work showing plain tan backing board with two paper labels and a blue tape attachment near the top center, and four small nail holes at the corners.
Artist or Maker
Pablo Picasso
Spain, 1881-1973, active France
Title
Figure
Place Made
France
Date Made
1930
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
25 3/8 × 18 5/8 in. (64.45 × 47.31 cm) Framed: 34 × 27 1/4 × 3 in. (86.36 × 69.22 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.103
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1881-1973). [Alex Reid and Lefevre, London]; [Valentine Gallery, New York]; acquired before 1956 by Katherine Urquhart Warren (1897-1976), Newport, RI and New York; [sale, Christie's New York, May 15, 1990, Lot 52]; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1992 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • The Picasso Project. "Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture." San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1995
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
  • Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1955. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 7.
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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