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    Foto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf

Nu assis, 1933

Pablo Picasso

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Pablo Picasso

1881
Málaga, Spanien

1973
Mougins, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 130 × 97.3 × 2.3 cm
Frame: 153.8 × 121.3 × 10.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.l.: "Picasso 33"; verso a.d. Keilrahmen: "Picasso 20 Fevrier M.CM.XXXIII"

Accession Number

0195

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos 8/91

Acquisition year

1974

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of the painting “Nu assis” by Pablo Picasso after its creation in 1933. For the year 1946, it can be traced to Valentine Dudensing’s Valentine Gallery in New York, which, however, ceased its activities in 1948. There are also indications that the work can be found with Pierre Loeb, owner of Galerie Pierre, around 1957. At an unknown date between 1946 and 1971, it was also in the J. K. Thannhauser Gallery in New York. As there is no evidence of ownership, it is possible that the work remained in the artist’s possession until Picasso’s death in 1973 and was only held by the galleries on consignment. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Nu assis” from Galerie Rosengart for its holdings in 1974.

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 “Nu assis,” 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

Exhibitions
  • Picasso Surrealismus Werke von 1925 - 1937, 14.9.-14.12.1991, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
  • Picasso Sculptor/Painter, 15.2.-7.5.1994, Tate Gallery, London
  • La Sculpture des Peintres, 1.7.-18.10.1997, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul
  • Von Matisse bis Picasso. Hommage an Siegfried Rosengart, 18.6.-10.9.1988, Kunstmuseum Luzern
  • 1946. L'art de la Reconstruction, 27.6.-19.10.1996, Musée Picasso, Antibes
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Picasso - Badende, 17.6.-15.10.2005, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • Die Skulpturen der Maler. Malerei und Plastik im Dialog, 4.7.-25.10.2008, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
  • Frauen. Picasso, Beckmann, de Kooning, 29.3.-14.7.2012, Pinakothek der Moderne, München
  • 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
Tags
abstract figure Modern Art Cubism
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