Nu assis, 1933
Pablo Picasso
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.
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
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