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Pierrot
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Paris, 1918. Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 28 3/4" (92.7 x 73 cm). Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
12.1952
Bourgeois Gallery (Stephan Bourgeois), New York; sold to Sam A. Lewisohn (1884-1951), New York, May 1923 [1]; Estate of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952 (Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest).
[1] Collection files, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
[2] Collection files, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. See also Stephan Bourgeois, The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures, New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, pp. 216-217. Lender to the exhibitions "Modern" Pictures Representing Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist Painters, Union League Club, New York, April 8-10,1924; Painting in Paris from American collections, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 19-February 16, 1930, no. 70 (Pierrot, 1918); Picasso, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 16- July 30, 1932 (no. 108); The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York, April 3-April 22, 1939; Picasso: Forty Years of his Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 15, 1939-January 7, 1940, and Art Institute of Chicago, February 1-March 3, 1940 (no. 139).
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