Pablo Picasso
Allan Stein
1906
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Pablo Picasso
Allan Stein
1906
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor, Sheet: 740 × 597 mm. (29 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.275
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, 1949; Allan Stein; from Michael and Sarah Stein
John Richardson, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., "Picasso: An American Tribute," April 25-May 12, 1962, no. 26, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gerturde Stein and Her Family," December 18, 1970-March 1, 1971, p. 168, ill. p. 83; (modified) circulation to The Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gerturde Stein and Her Family," December 18, 1970-March 1, 1971, p. 168, ill. p. 83; (modified) circulation to The Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Picasso's 'Saltimbanques' in the Cone Collection, " "The Baltimore Museum of Art News, vol. XIII, no. 3 (December 1949), pp. 3-4.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Early Picasso Drawings in the Cone Collection," "Magazine of Art," vol. XLV, no. 3 (March 1952), ill. cover and p. 107.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso," Vol. I, Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1954, no. 353.
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone, NY: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. 1962, pp. 245-247.
John Richardson, "Pablo Picasso: Watercolors and Gouaches," London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1964, pp. 26-27, pl. 6.
"The Cone Collection," (rev. ed.), Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, no. 87, ill. p. 31.
Pierre Daix and George Boudaille, "Picasso, the Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906," trans. by Phoebe Pool, London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967, no. XIV.2.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, pp. 83.
Denys Sutton and Paolo Lecaldano, "The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods," London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1971, no. 228, ill.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 29.
Rubin, William, ed. Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980, p. 58, ill.
Flam, Jack D. Matisse, The Man and His Art 1869-1918. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1986, page 219, fig. 219. (Published as “Portrait of Allan Stein”)
John Klein, "Matisse Portraits," London: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 150, ill.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
Inscribed: Recto: "Picasso" in black paint at top right.