Pablo Picasso

Head of a Picador with a Broken Nose

1900

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Pablo Picasso

Head of a Picador with a Broken Nose

Pablo Picasso

Head of a Picador with a Broken Nose

1900

Physical Qualities Bronze, 7 11/16 x 5 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (19.5 x 14.4 x 11.4 cm.)

Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland

Object Number 1950.453

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest 1929; Claribel Cone, by purchase from Sally Stein 1925; ex collection Gertrude Stein.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940", June 6 - Septembar 1, 1941.

Fine Arts Associates, New York, "Picasso Sculpture", January 15-February 9. 1957.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition", May 22-September 8, 1957; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29-December 8, 1957.

Philadelphia Museum of Art "Picasso, A Loan Exhibition of His Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints and illustrated Books", January 8-February 23, 1958.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, "The Sculpture of Picasso", October 9, 1967-January 2, 1968.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collection of Gertrude Stein and Her Family", December 18, 1970-March 1, 1971; The Baltimore Museum of Art, April 4-June 13, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, September 15-October 31, 1971.

Arts Council of Britain, Hayward Gallery, "Pioneers of Modern Sculpture", July 20-September 23, 1973.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Van Gogh to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 21, 1993-January 30, 1994.

Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure", August 8-October 28, 2001

Oliver Shell, "The Persistent Figure in Modern Sculpture", The Baltimore Museum of Art,
October 25, 2006-June 17, 2007.

Ann Temkin , Anne Umland, "Picasso Sculpture," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2015.

André Level, "Picasso," (Paris: G. Crès & Cie, 1928) 29.

Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore, Maryland" (Baltimore:

1934) 124.

Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso Vol. VI" (Paris: Edition Cahiers D'Art,

1954) 73, cat. # 597.

"Handbook of the Cone Collection" (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 47.

"Life Magazine" 14 Oct. 1957, color illustration p. 77.

Peter Anselm Riedl, "'Masque d'Homme' Ein Fruhwerk Pablo Picassos," Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Band 7, Hamburg: Ernst Hauswedell & Co, 1962, pp. 83-92.

"Handbook of the Cone Collection" (revised edition) (Baltimore: BMA,

1967) 49.

Roland Penrose, "The Sculpture of Picasso" (New York, NY: MOMA,

1967) 221.

Irene Gordon, Lucile M. Golson, Leon Katz, Douglas Cooper, Ellen B.

Hirschland, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collection of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," exh. cat. (New York, NY: MOMA, 1970) 165, cat # 38.

Werner Spies and Christine Piot, "Picasso Das Plastische Werk," exh. cat. to

"Picasso Plastiken" Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 1983, p. 372.

Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta" (Baltimore: BMA 1985) 175.

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

Ann Temkin and Anne Umland, "Picasso Sculpture," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2015, p. 36-38, Cat. no. 2, ill. p. 45.

Dallas Museum of Art, "Pablo Picasso: Imitation, Transformation, Innovation (working title)" September 15, 2024 - January 12, 2025. Circulated to Portland Art Museum (Oregon) February 16, 2025 - June 8, 2025.

Inscribed: Lower left: "PICASSO 04 1905." The way the inscriptions is made suggests separation and perhaps a difference of inscription methods between the "04" and the "1905."