Portrait de Fernande - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Pablo Picasso

1881
Málaga, Spanien

1973
Mougins, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 61,8 × 43,2 × 1,8 cm
Frame: 80,5 × 62,5 × 10 cm

Signature

Bez. o.l.: "Picasso"

Accession Number

0133

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos 26/419

Acquisition year

1963

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of the painting “Portrait de Fernande” by Pablo Picasso after its creation in 1909. It was presumably temporarily held by the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard, but is known to have been in the USA since 1941 at the latest and in the possession of the New York gallery branch of Etienne Bignou from 1942, which was managed by Georges Keller from 1935. Etienne Bignou was a French art dealer, so the work may have come from Paris to New York through him. From 1944 at the latest the work was part of the collection of Henry and Barbara Church, who loaned it to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After Henry and Barbara Church’s deaths, their art estate, including the portrait, was auctioned off at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in January 1961. Heinz Berggruen, owner of Berggruen & Cie., purchased the work at the auction for his private collection, where it remained for only a short time. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Portrait de Fernande” by Heinz Berggruen through the Contemporary Art Establishment for its holdings in 1963.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

transForm BildObjektSkulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, 15.6.-26.9.1992, Kunstmuseum Basel
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Henri Rousseau und die Moderne, 2.2.-16.6.2001, Kunsthalle, Tübingen
Picasso et les femmes, 19.10.2002-18.1.2003, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier, 27.9.2003-17.1.2004, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Cézanne. Aufbruch in die Moderne, 17.9.2004-15.1.2005, Museum Folkwang. Essen
Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Picasso - Frauen und Männer, 23.10.2015-7.3.2016, Buchheim Museum, Bernried
museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
Georges Braque 1906 - 1914. Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism, 24.9.2021-22.1.2022, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Kleehalle)
Fernande Olivier, 5.6.-5.10.2024, Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona