Pablo Picasso
Boulevard de Clichy, 1901
On view at Mint Museum, Charlotte
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Oil on canvas, 61,4 x 46,5 cm
signed lower right: Picasso
Inv.-no. MB-Pic-01
Artists from all countries came to Paris to find a connection to the modern era. On his first trip to Paris, Pablo Picasso painted a street in Montmartre, the neighborhood that was popular among artists, in the Impressionist style. The picture is part of a group of about thirty works that the then nineteen-year-old artist presented at his solo exhibition in the Galerie Ambroise Vollard in 1901 in Paris.
F. Iturrino and P. R. Picasso, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Paris, June 1901, no. 30
Impressionisten: Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen, Kunsthalle Basel, September 3–November 20, 1949, no. 166 (?)
Picasso, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, January/February 1955, no. 2
Picasso: An American Tribute, 1895–1909, M. Knoedler, New York, 1962, no. 9
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892–1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 30–July 27, 1997; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 10, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 61
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
1901, Mme Besnard, Paris
n.d., Galerie Balay et Carre, Paris, and M. Knoedler, New York
1938, Valentine Gallery (Valentine Dudensing), New York, acquired from
the above
1946, Max Pellequer, Paris
n.d., Mrs. Aline Barnsdall, Los Angeles
n.d., M. Knoedler, New York
1955, Mrs. William S. Farish, New York
1981, Private collection, Houston
June 26, 1995, Christie’s, London, lot 24
Maspro Denkoh Art Museum, Japan, acquired at the above sale
May 4, 2005, Christie’s, New York, lot 26, consigned by the above
Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale
April 2019, purchased from a private collection
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 1, Paris 1932, no. 72, ill. plate 35
Jean Cassou, Picasso, New York 1940, p. 39, ill. p. 39
Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer, Picasso antes de Picasso, Barcelona 1946, fig. 74
Joan Merli, Picasso, Buenos Aires 1948, fig. 41
Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer, Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva 1950, fig. 69
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartès, Picasso, New York 1957, no. 13, ill. p. 458
Picasso: An American Tribute, 1895–1909, exh. cat. M. Knoedler, New York 1962, no. 9
Pierre Daix, Georges Boudaille and Joan Rosselet, Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods, Neuchâtel 1966, no. V.30, ill. p. 170
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years 1881–1907, New York 1981, no. 615, p. 241, ill. p. 240
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. 1, New York 1991, ill. p. 196
Jonathan Brown (ed.), Picasso and the Spanish Tradition, New Haven 1996, ill. p. 40, fig. 35
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892–1906, exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1997, no. 61, ill. p. 160
Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso. Style and Meaning, London 2002, ill. p. 78, fig. 52
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