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Femme assise dans un fauteuil, 1941

Pablo Picasso

Information

Artist

Pablo Picasso

1881
Málaga, Spanien

1973
Mougins, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 81.2 × 65.3 × 2.3 cm
Frame: 108.7 × 92.8 × 9.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.l.: "Picasso"

Accession Number

1017

Catalogue Raisonné

Zervos 11/340 [Z. XI., Nr. 340]

Acquisition year

1965

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of the painting “Femme assise dans un fauteuil” by Pablo Picasso after its creation in 1941. The work was verifiably presented at an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré in 1945. Whether it belonged to the gallery’s holdings or was only given to it for sale on consignment cannot be proven. Before it came to Galerie Rosengart in 1965, it was part of a private US-American collection. In that same year, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Femme assise dans un fauteuil” from Galerie Rosengart for its holdings.

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 “Femme assise dans un fauteuil,” 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 1965 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions
  • Picasso, 5.12.1992-20.2.1993, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Picasso - Die Zeit nach Guernica, 17.6.-28.8.1993, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Art for Life's Sake, 24.3.-3.6.2000, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura
  • 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 City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in 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
  • 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
  • Picasso. Au cœur des ténèbres (1939-1945)/Picasso. At the Heart of Darkness (1939-1945), 4.10.2019-4.1.2020, Musée de Grenoble
  • Pablo Picasso. Kriegsjahre 1939 bis 1945, 14.2.-13.6.2020, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20
  • The Paris of Brassaï and Picasso, 17.10.2021-2.4.2022, Museo Picasso Málaga
Tags
abstract figure Modern Art Cubism
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