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Pablo Picasso
Harlequin1923

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorPablo Picasso—Portraits in Disguise
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.

Pablo Picasso, Harlequin, 1923, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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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