PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Femme se coiffant

Details
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme se coiffant
stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE (on the base at left); numbered 6 / 10 (on the base at right)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 42 cm. (16 ½ in.)
Conceived in 1906; cast in bronze by Valsuani in 1968 in a numbered edition of 10
Provenance
Probably Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Perls Galleries, New York (no. 13031), by 1981 until at least 1986.
Private collection, New York.
Christie's, New York, 15 November 1988, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Zervos, 'Sculptures des peintres d'aujourd'hui', in Cahiers d'Art, vol. 1, Paris, January 1928, p. 285 (another cast ill.; titled 'Figure').
A. Level, Picasso, Paris, 1928, no. 55, p. 58 (another cast ill.; dated 1904).
C. Vrancken, Picasso, exh. cat., Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1932, no. 227, p. 71 (another cast referenced; titled 'Figure' and dated 'circa 1900').
J.J. Sweeney, 'Picasso and Iberian Sculpture', in The Art Bulletin, vol. XXIII, no. 3, New York, September 1941, fig. 8, p. 194 (another cast ill.; and dated '1905').
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 1, Œuvres de 1895 à 1906, Paris, 1957, no. 329 (another cast ill. pl. 153; titled 'La Coiffure' and dated '1905').
R. Penrose, Picasso, Amsterdam, 1961, no. 5 (another cast ill.; titled 'Femme agenouillée peignant ses cheveux').
W. Spies, Picasso Sculpture, London, 1972, no. 7, pp. 28, 37 (another cast ill.) & 301 (titled 'Woman Arranging her Hair').
W. Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972, fig. 19, pp. 36 & 194 (another cast ill.; dated '1905-1906').
R. Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso, 1901-1914, New York, 1976, no. 51, pp. 56-58 & 214 (another cast ill.; titled 'Kneeling Woman').
W. Rubin, Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980, p. 74 (another cast ill.).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Life and Work of the Early Years, 1881-1907, Oxford, 1981, no. 1364, pp. 473 (another cast ill.) & 553 (titled 'Kneeling Woman Plaiting Her Hair').
Galerie Beyeler (ed.), Picasso: A Centennial Selection, exh. cat., Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1981, no. 122, pp. 105 (another cast ill.) & 127.
W. Spies, Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1983, no. 7-II, pp. 26-28 (another cast ill.), 326 (another cast ill.) & 372.
Musée Picasso (ed.), Catalogue sommaire des collections, Paris, 1985, no. 277, pp. 141 & 151 (another cast ill.).
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, 1881-1906, London, 1991, pp. 460-461 (another cast ill.; titled 'Fernande Combing Her Hair').
M.T. Ocaña & H.C. von Tavel, Picasso, 1905-1906: From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol, exh. cat., Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1992, no. 197, pp. 372-373 (another cast ill.).
C.-P. Warncke & I. Walther, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, Werke 1890-1936, Cologne, 1991, p. 143 (another cast ill.).
E. Cowling & J. Golding, Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1994, no. 2, pp. 42 (another cast ill.) & 256.
W. Rubin (ed.), Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, p. 264 (another cast ill.; titled 'Woman Plaiting Her Hair (Fernande)').
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 7-II, pp. 26, 31-33 (another cast ill.), 346 (another cast ill.) & 394.
E. Weiss & M.T. Ocaña, eds., Picasso, Die Sammulng Ludwig, Munich, 2001, no. 9 (another cast ill.).
I. Mössinger (ed.), Picasso et les femmes, exh. cat., Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, 2002, p. 75 (another cast ill.; with incorrect dimensions and titled 'Woman Plaiting Her Hair (Fernande)').
I. Conzen, Picasso Badende, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 2005, no. 3, pp. 19, 21 (another cast ill.) & 222 (with incorrect dimensions).
E. Cowling & R. Kendall, Picasso Looks at Degas, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2010, no. 201, pp. 180-182 (another cast ill.) & 340 (titled 'Woman Plaiting Her Hair').
A. Baldassari (ed.), Picasso, Capolavori dal Museo Nazionale Picasso di Parigi, exh. cat., Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2012, no. 101 (another cast ill.).
A. Temkin & A. Umland, eds., Picasso Sculpture, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, no. 21, pp. 32-33 (another cast ill.), 39, 42-43 (another cast ill.), 49 (another cast ill.) & 298 (titled 'Kneeling Woman Combing Her Hair').
Musée national Picasso (ed.), Picasso Sculptures, exh. cat., Musée national Picasso, Paris, 2016, no. 13, p. 51 (another cast ill.).
Musée d'Orsay, (ed.), Picasso, Bleu et rose, exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2018, no. 290, pp. 331 (another cast ill.) & 385.
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Picasso 100th Birthday Selection, October - November 1981, no. 17 (titled 'Femme Arrangeant ses Cheveux').
New York, Perls Galleries, Picasso and Peers, November - December 1983 (titled 'Femme Arrangeant ses Cheveux').
New York, Perls Galleries, Group Exhibition, September - January 1986 (titled 'Femme Arrangeant ses Cheveux').
New York, Perls Galleries, Léger - Picasso, April - August 1986 (titled 'Femme Arrangeant ses Cheveux').
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Picasso, Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, pp. 24-25 (ill.) & 77-78 (titled 'Femme s'arrangeant ses Cheveux (La Coiffure)' and dated '1906-1907').
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers II, Von Toulouse-Lautrec bis Picasso, April - September 2000, pp. 75 (ill.) & 107.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Weibsbilder, September 2000 - March 2001 (no cat.).
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning, November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 5, p. 111 (ill.; titled 'Die Frisur - Sich kämmende Frau').

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