Pablo Picasso Woman with Pears Horta de San Joan, summer 1909

  • MoMA, Floor 5, 503 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 1/4 x 27 7/8" (92.1 x 70.8 cm)
Credit
Florene May Schoenborn Bequest
Object number
827.1996
Copyright
© 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
Painting and Sculpture

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[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris and/or Ambroise Vollard, Paris and/or Galerie Thannhauser, Munich]
By September 7, 1919 (1912 or 1913?) - at least October 1932, Alfred Flechtheim and/or Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Berlin and London.
By February 1934(?) - March 1937, The Mayor Gallery and/or Douglas Cooper, London.
March 1937, Pierre Matisse Gallery (consignment no. 882, stock no. 594), New York, purchased from “Cooper”.
March 31, 1937 - June 2, 1955, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, purchased from Pierre Matisse Gallery.
June 2, 1955 - 1996, Florene May Marx (1903-1995, later Schoenborn) and Samuel A. Marx (1948–1964), Chicago, purchased from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. through M. Knoedler & Co. (consignment no. 4786), New York.
1996, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as bequest from Florene May Schoenborn.

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