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Deux femmes nues assises, 1920

Pablo Picasso

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Pablo Picasso

1881
Málaga, Spanien

1973
Mougins, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "Picasso 20"

Accession Number

1039

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos 4/217

Acquisition year

1966

Provenance

The painting “Deux femmes nues assises” by Pablo Picasso was purchased directly from the artist by Picasso’s art dealer Paul Rosenberg shortly after its creation in 1920. Rosenberg sold the work to John Quinn just two months later at a 50 percent profit. The work remained in Quinn’s collection until his death in 1924, after which it became the property of Gottlieb Friedrich Reber. Walter P. Chrysler Jr. negotiated the purchase of the work with Reber as early as 1936, but was only able to acquire it for his collection in February 1939 at an exhibition at the Marie Harriman Gallery. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Deux femmes nues assises” from the Chrysler Jr. collection through the Myrtil Frank Gallery for its holdings in 1966.

Credit line

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

Exhibitions
  • Canto d'amore. Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst 1914-1935, 24.4.-10.8.1996, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • Gegenleihgabe für die Ausstellung "Picassos Welt der Kinder" in der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 13.8.-26.11.1996, Musée Picasso, Paris
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Picasso Classique, 19.9.-13.12.2003, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokio
  • Picasso - Badende, 17.6.-15.10.2005, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 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
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Figur Klassische Moderne
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