Bust Of A Man (Josep Fondevila)

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Object Details

Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, b. Málaga, 1881–1973
Date
(1906)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
6 5/8 X 9 X 4 5/8 IN. (16.8 X 22.9 X 11.7 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.4047

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to 25 April 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 25 April 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 188. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.]
[SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 364.]
[ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto, Canada. "Picasso and Man," 11 January-16 February 1964, no. 37, ill. p. 52. TOUR: MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Quebec, Canada, 28 February-31 March.]
DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS and FORT WORTH ARTS CENTER, Texas. "Picasso," 8 February-26 March 1967, no. 88, p. 98.
NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin. "Picasso--Plastiken," 6 October-27 November 1983, no. 9, ill. p. 326, pp. 372, 421. Book catalog by Werner Spies as Picasso--Das Plastische Werk. TOUR: KUNSTHALLE, Dusseldorf, 11 December 1983-29 January 1984.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906," 30 March-27 July 1997, checklist 166, pp. 51, 365, colorpl. 166, p. 334. TOUR: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, Massachusetts, 10 September-4 January 1998.
BUNKAMURA MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo, Japan. "Pablo Picasso," 4 July-6 September 1998, no. 29, colorpl. p. 76. TOUR: NAGOYA CITY ART MUSEUM, Nagoya, 15 September-29 November.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Picasso Sculpteur," 7 June-25 September 2000, cat. no. 9-II, p. 394, ills. pp. 34, 346.
NAPLES MUSEUM OF ART, Florida. "Picasso: Preoccupations and Passions," 29 January-18 May 2008, fig. 5 (exh. brochure, color).
KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD, Germany. "Picasso 1905 in Paris," 25 September 2011 - 15 January 2012.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 733, ill. p. 177.
JOHNSON, RON. The Early Sculpture of Picasso 1901-1914 (Diss; reprint New York: Garland, 1976), no. 46, p. 211, ill.
HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979), ill.

Signature
No Visible Signature
Inscriptions
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Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alternate Title
Head Of A Man
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