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Picasso: 75th Anniversary
May 4–Sep 8, 1957
1 other work identified
Works of Art: Given or Promised
Oct 8–Nov 9, 1958
Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
May 28–Sep 1, 1969
1 other work identified
Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Feb 3–Apr 2, 1972
5 other works identified
Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
May 16–Sep 30, 1980
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
3 other works identified
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
Sep 24, 1989–Jan 16, 1990
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
Sep 24, 1989–Jan 16, 1990
Selections from the Collection (1993)
Mar 15–Jul 6, 1993
3 other works identified
Selections from the Collection (1993)
Mar 15–Jul 6, 1993
3 other works identified
Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
2 other works identified
Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation
Apr 28–Sep 17, 1996
Collection Highlights (2000)
May 25, 2000–Jan 28, 2001
2 other works identified
To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
2 other works identified
To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
2 other works identified
To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
6 other works identified
Painting &
Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
4 other works identified
518: A Surrealist Art History
Fall 2019–Spring 2021
4 other works identified
518: A Surrealist Art History
Fall 2019–Spring 2021
3 other works identified
518: A Surrealist Art History
Fall 2019–Spring 2021
7 other works identified
503: Picasso, Rousseau, and the Paris Avant-Garde
Oct 25, 2021–Mar 10, 2024
7 other works identified
503: Picasso, Rousseau, and the Paris Avant-Garde
Oct 25, 2021–Mar 10, 2024
5 other works identified
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1910, Pablo Picasso, Paris.
1910 - 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, Paris.
1914 - May 30, 1921, Uhde collection and gallery stock, sequestered during World War I by the French government as enemy property and sold through Hôtel Drouot (Collection Uhde: Tableaux Modernes, Paris, May 30, 1921, lot 44).
May 30, 1921 - May 18-19, 1925, Christian Tetzen-Lund (1852-1936), Copenhagen, purchased at auction Hôtel Drouot and sold at the auction sale of the Tetzen-Lund collection (Franske og Skandinaviske Billeder tilhørende Tetzen-Lund’s Samlinger, Copenhagen, May 18-19, 1925, lot 99).
May 18-19, 1925 - ?, Paul Rosenberg, Paris [possibly on consignment with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin and Düsseldorf], purchased at auction from Christian Tetzen-Lund through Wilhelm Hansen.
André Breton, Paris, acquired from Paul Rosenberg.
By 1931 - 1937, René Gaffé, Bruxelles and Cagnes-sur-Mer, purchased through/from André Breton and Paul Éluard, Paris.
1937 - November 1956, Roland A. Penrose, London and Sussex, purchased from René Gaffé through Zwemmer Gallery.
November 1956 - 1979, Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, purchased from Roland A. Penrose through Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
1979, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired by bequest from Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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