Pablo Picasso Still Life with Fruit and Glass Paris, fall 1908

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1908, Pablo Picasso.
? - 1913, Leo Stein (1872-1947) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Paris, acquired from the artist.
1913 - 1946, Gertrude Stein, Paris and San Francisco.
1946 - 1968, Estate of Gertrude Stein, c/o Alice B. Toklas, Paris.
1968, The Museum of Modern Art Syndicate, New York, purchased from the heirs of the Stein estate.
1968 - 1982, John Hay Whitney (1904-1982) and Betsey Maria Cushing Whitney (1908-1998), New York, acquired from the Museum of Modern Art Syndicate.
1982 - 1983, Estate of John Hay Whitney, New York.
1983, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from the Estate of John Hay Whitney.

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