Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pot et compotier avec fruits

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pot et compotier avec fruits
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
pencil on paper
13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.3 x 25.5 cm.)
Drawn in Paris, 1919

Provenance

Ladislas Segy, Paris and New York.
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York.
Anon. sale, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 10-11 December 1947, lot 7.
Anon. (acquired by the family of the owner at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1988, lot 153.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1949, vol. 3, no. 275 (illustrated, pl. 94).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, p. 169, no. 19-006 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The pitcher in this drawing also appears in Picasso's first important still life in his classicizing manner of the late 1910s, Nature morte au pichet et aux pommes (Picasso Project, 1917-1919, no. 19.004; coll. Musée Picasso, Paris). The pitcher and compotier are also the subject of a pastel (Zervos, vol. 3, no. 276). The extensive shading and tondo outline suggest that this drawing may have been executed as a study for a major classicized composition utilizing the pitcher and compotier, with the addition of a tablecloth, glass and mirror. This painting, however, was not undertaken.

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