id: 90541 accession number: 2020.112 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.112 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:01.408000 Head (Tête), 1926. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). 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 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Head (Tête) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1926 creation date earliest: 1926 creation date latest: 1926 current location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: Zervos VII, 41 --- CREATORS * Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist 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. --- measurements: Unframed: 21.6 x 14 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated, upper left: Picasso / 26 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Picasso. Kunsthaus Zürich (September 11-October 30, 1932).', 'opening_date': '1932-09-11T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Possibly included in: School of Paris: Picasso and his Contemporaries. Lefevre Gallery, London (May-June 1945).', 'opening_date': '1945-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Summer Loan Exhibitions. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (1969-1972).', 'opening_date': '1969-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Aspects of 20th Century Art. David Jones Ltd. Gallery, Sydney, Australia (May 10-29, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-05-10T04:00:00Z'} * {'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).", 'opening_date': '1977-10-15T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': "Barnard Collects: The Educational Eye. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (September 28-October 31, 1989).", 'opening_date': '1989-09-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Sir Roland Penrose [1900–1984], London, United Kingdom date: footnotes: *
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, “The Modern Colossus (1936-1938),” in Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), p. 108. 
citations: (Wildenstein & Co., Paris) date: by 1932 footnotes: citations: Peter Watson [1908–1956], London, United Kingdom and Paris, FR date: by 1932 footnotes: *
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1932), vol. VII, cat. no. 41, p. 19, ill.
citations: George David Thompson [1899–1965], Pittsburgh, PA date: footnotes: citations: (Richard L. Feigen, and Co., Chicago, IL) date: 1967 footnotes: citations: Private Collection, New York, NY date: 1968 footnotes: citations: (Richard L. Feigen and Co., Chicago, IL) date: 1973 footnotes: *
According to documents supplied by Richard L. Feigen & Co. in the curatorial file.
citations: Sandra Canning Kasper, New York, NY date: 1978 footnotes: *
According to documents supplied by Richard L. Feigen & Co. in the curatorial file. Kasper was married to Richard Feigen from 1966-1978.
citations: Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen [1903–1986], Villanova, PA date: footnotes: *

 
citations: (Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: by 2002 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Cahiers d'art, 1932. page number: Reproduced: Vol. 7, P. 19, no. 41 url: Picasso. Exh. Cat. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1932. page number: Mentioned: p. 12, no. 165 url: Penrose, Roland. Picasso: His Life and Work. London: Victor Gollancz, 1958. page number: Reproduced: no. 7 url: Penrose, Roland. Picasso: His Life and Work. New York: Schocken Books, 1962. page number: Mentioned: P. 232; Reproduced: Pl. XI, 7 url: Lieberman, William S. Aspects of 20th Century Art. Sydney, Australia : David Jones Limited, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: Weisner, Ulrich. Picassos Surrealismus: Werke 1925-1937. [Bielefeld]: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1991. page number: Reproduced: P. 35; mentioned and reproduced: P. 303, no. 5 url: 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 url: Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926). Cologne: Könemann, 1999. page number: Reproduced: P. 481, no. 1710; mentioned: P. 524, no. 1710 url: Bezzola, Tobia. Picasso: His First Museum Exhibition, 1932. Exh. Cat. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 2010. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 237, no. 165 url: Musée Picasso (Paris, France). Picasso: Tableaux Magiques. Paris: Musée National Picasso, 2019. page number: Reproduced: P. 44, TM 11 url: --- IMAGES