VARIOUS PROPERTIES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Details
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

La conversation

signed top right P. Ruiz Picasso--oil on cradled panel
5¼ x 8 7/8 in. (13.5 x 22 cm.)

Painted in Paris, 1900
Provenance
Josef Stransky, New York
William Taylor
Mrs. John D. Walker
Galerie Schmit, Paris
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1932, vol. I (oeuvres de 1895 à 1906), no. 34 (illustrated, pl. XXVII)
A. Cirici-Pellior, Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva, 1950, p. 205,
no. 51 (illustrated)
A. Blunt and P. Pool, Picasso, The Formative Years, A study of his sources, Paris, 1962, p. 29 (illustrated, no. 36)
P. Daix, G. Boudaille and J. Rosselet, Picasso The Blue and Rose Periods, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900-1906, Neuchâtel, 1966, no. II 18 (illustrated, p. 124)
J.Paulo i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1980, no. 537 (illustrated; titled A Vehement Talker, Madrid, 1901, p. 219)
Exhibited
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1939-1966 (on extended loan)
Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Art, Fifty Years of French Painting: The Emergence of Modern Art, Feb.-March, 1980