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"tombstone": "Head (T\u00eate), 1926. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973). Oil on canvas; unframed: 21.6 x 14 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.112. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
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"description": "Picasso. Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich (September 11-October 30, 1932).",
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"description": "Exposition Pablo Picasso. Le Musee de la ville de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (October 15-December 4,1977); Prefectoral D'Aichi, Nagoya, Japan (December 13-26, 1977); Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan (January 5-22, 1987); Musee National d'Art Moderne, Kyoto, Japan (January 28-March 5, 1978).",
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"description": "Barnard Collects: The Educational Eye. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (September 28-October 31, 1989).",
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"description": "Possibly Sir Roland Penrose [1900\u20131984], London, United Kingdom",
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"According to documentation from Richard Feigen in the curatorial file dated June 2002, this painting was gifted to Roland Penrose by Picasso. However, Roland did not meet Picasso until 1936, introduced by Paul Eluard in July of that year. While this is not evidence that Penrose did not own this painting before this date, it is unlikely that it was a gift from the artist. See: James King, \u201cThe Modern Colossus (1936-1938),\u201d in Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), p. 108.
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"date": "by 1932",
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"Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso (Paris: Cahiers d\u2019Art, 1932), vol. VII, cat. no. 41, p. 19, ill.
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"description": "George David Thompson [1899\u20131965], Pittsburgh, PA",
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"description": "(Richard L. Feigen and Co., Chicago, IL)",
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"According to documents supplied by Richard L. Feigen & Co. in the curatorial file.
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"description": "Sandra Canning Kasper, New York, NY",
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"According to documents supplied by Richard L. Feigen & Co. in the curatorial file. Kasper was married to Richard Feigen from 1966-1978.
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"description": "Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen [1903\u20131986], Villanova, PA",
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"description": "(Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)",
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"description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "2020",
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"did_you_know": "Picasso was never an official member of the Surrealist movement, but he participated in their exhibitions; their leader Andr\u00e9 Breton wrote, \u201cWe proudly claim him as one of us.\u201d",
"description": "The woman\u2019s head in this painting contains multiple perspectives, most notably seen in the opposing profiles formed by the red and tan forms in the center, each with its own eye. A third eye appears on the left side of the face which can be read as a frontal view. While the woman\u2019s features resemble those of Picasso\u2019s lover, Marie Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter, she was probably not the model since they did not meet until January 1927. The contrast in style between this painting and Picasso\u2019s Head of a Boy (1905\u20136) is a testament to the artist\u2019s boundless creativity.",
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"citation": "Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Cahiers d'art, 1932.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. 7, P. 19, no. 41",
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"citation": "Picasso. Exh. Cat. Z\u00fcrich: Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, 1932.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 12, no. 165",
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"citation": "Penrose, Roland. Picasso: His Life and Work. London: Victor Gollancz, 1958.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 7",
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"citation": "Penrose, Roland. Picasso: His Life and Work. New York: Schocken Books, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 232; Reproduced: Pl. XI, 7",
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"citation": "Lieberman, William S. Aspects of 20th Century Art. Sydney, Australia : David Jones Limited, 1976.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28",
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"citation": "Weisner, Ulrich. Picassos Surrealismus: Werke 1925-1937. [Bielefeld]: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 35; mentioned and reproduced: P. 303, no. 5",
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"citation": "Chipp, Herschel Browning , Alan Wofsy, and Fernand Mourlot. Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. San Francisco, CA: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. 4, P. 73, no. 26-092",
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"citation": "Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926). Cologne: Ko\u0308nemann, 1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 481, no. 1710; mentioned: P. 524, no. 1710",
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"citation": "Bezzola, Tobia. Picasso: His First Museum Exhibition, 1932. Exh. Cat. Z\u00fcrich: Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, 2010.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 237, no. 165",
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"citation": "Muse\u0301e Picasso (Paris, France). Picasso: Tableaux Magiques. Paris: Muse\u0301e National Picasso, 2019.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 44, TM 11",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H. \"Modern European Painting.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 132-139, 142-149. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 146-147; Mentioned: p. 257-258",
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"biography": "Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.",
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