Fenêtre ouverte - 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: 209.5 × 117.5 cm
Frame: 232 × 140 × 10 cm

Signature

Bez. u.M.: "Picasso 19"

Accession Number

1033

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos 3/367

Acquisition year

1966

Provenance

The painting “Fenêtre ouverte” by Pablo Picasso was probably purchased by the Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg shortly after its creation in 1919. The two numbers noted by Rosenberg indicate that the painting may have been owned elsewhere after 1923, while it can be traced back to Rosenberg in 1931. Méric Callery, who was friends with Picasso and spent time in France between 1930 and 1940, gave the work to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1940 for exhibition purposes. It was then presented as part of the exhibition tour “The Callery Collection,” which ended in 1945 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It verifiably remained in Callery’s possession until 1961, before the painting “Fenêtre ouverte” was purchased by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen through the Bremen Galerie Michael Hertz in 1966.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “Fenêtre ouverte,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1966 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions

Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Picasso. Fenster zur Welt, 5.2.-15.5.2016, Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg