La guitare, 1913
Pablo Picasso
Information
Artist
Pablo Picasso
1881
Málaga, Spanien
1973
Mougins, Frankreich
Work data
Material/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Image: 116,5 × 81 × 2,5 cm
Frame: 135,5 × 100 × 7,5 cm
Signature
Bez. u.M.: "Picasso"
Accession Number
0179
Catalogue Raisonné
Zervos 2/442
Acquisition year
1970
Provenance
Little is known about the whereabouts of Pablo Picasso’s painting “La guitare” after its creation in 1913. Owned by the collector and artist Méric Callery, who was a friend of Picasso, the work can only be traced from 1942 to 1945. In 1945, Curt Valentin exhibited it at the Buchholz Gallery as part of a private collection, which was presumably Callery’s own. From 1948 to 1962, the work can be found in a private collection. After that, its trace is lost for almost ten years. At the end of 1970, the New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co. and the Parisian gallery Berggruen & Cie. jointly offered the work for sale to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and sent it to Düsseldorf for viewing. A few months later, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen finally purchased the painting “La guitare” for its holdings.
Credit line
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Exhibitions
- Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya/Tokio/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
- Georges Braque 1906 - 1914. Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism, 24.9.2021-22.1.2022, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Kleehalle)
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