巴布罗‧毕加索(1881-1973)
巴布罗‧毕加索(1881-1973)

Leçon de dessin

Details
巴布罗‧毕加索(1881-1973)
Leçon de dessin
signed and dated 'Picasso 16.4.53.' (lower center)
colored wax crayons and pencil on paper
26 x 19 ¾ in. (66 x 50.2 cm.)
Drawn on 16 April 1953
来源
Edward Quinn, London (gift from the artist); sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1993, lot 255.
Stanley J. Seeger, London (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2001, lot 61.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Gower, Picasso Teaches His Children to Draw, London, 1953, pp. 16-17 (illustrated).
E. Quinn, Picasso at Work, London, 1965 (illustrated and illustrated again in situ).
E. Quinn and P. Daix, The Private Picasso, Boston, 1987, pp. 82-83 (illustrated in situ).
W. Spies, Picasso's World of Children, New York, 1994, p. 248 (illustrated).
W. Rubin, ed., Picasso and Portraiture, Representation and Transformation, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, p. 442 (illustrated in situ).

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拍品专文

玛雅·维德迈尔-毕加索(Maya Widmaier-Picasso)确认这幅作品确属真迹。
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work as a collaboration with Françoise Gilot, Claude Picasso and Paloma Picasso.

Drawn in spring 1953 while Picasso was living in Vallauris at “La Galloise,” the present work was executed as the result of Picasso giving his children, Claude and Paloma, a drawing lesson. Edward Quinn, who photographed this scene as it was taking place (fig. 1), recalls that Claude and Paloma were on the floor drawing that day, and asked for their father’s help. “A very special father giving his children a drawing lesson. Picasso explains to Paloma that a sharp pencil is necessary to good drawing. Using colored pencils and imitating a child’s technique, he sketches the sun, a flower, a hen, and a multi-colored bird holding a butterfly in its beak. Taking over from their father, Claude draws a house with smoke coming out of the chimney, and Paloma sketches the outlines of a garden” (E. Quinn and P. Daix, op. cit., p. 82). To complete the family effort, each family member signed the drawing.

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