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Pablo Picasso
Harlequin1923

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Vertical cubist oil painting of a fragmented geometric face in forest green, black, off-white, and powder blue, with a dotted circular eye motif
Reverse of a framed canvas in a wood frame, showing two paper labels with printed text and a small thumbnail image affixed to the upper portion of the blank white canvas back.
Artist or Maker
Pablo Picasso
Spain, 1881-1973, active France
Title
Harlequin
Place Made
France
Date Made
1923
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (46.99 × 39.37 cm) Framed: 25 7/8 × 23 × 2 3/4 in. (65.72 × 58.42 × 6.99 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.101
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1881-1973). [Paul Rosenberg Gallery, Paris]; [Christie's London, sale of private collection]; [Valentine Gallery, New York, by 1937]; The Claire Zeisler (1903-1991) Collection, Chicago; [Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago]; sold 1993 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, 1952. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, no. 62, p. 35, illustrated.
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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