Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Pomme

 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pomme

signed, dated and inscribed ‘Picasso Noël 1914 Souvenir pour Gertrude et Alice’ (on the reverse)

gouache and watercolor on paper

5 3/8 x 7 in. (13.5 x 17.7 cm.)

Painted in 1914

Provenance

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Paris (gift from the artist, December 1914).

Estate of Gertrude Stein, Paris (1946).

Syndicate of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired from the above, 1968).

Acquired from the above by the late owners, December 1968.

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 1970-March 1971, p. 172 (illustrated, pp. 57-58).

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Juan Gris, June-August 1971, no. 36 (illustrated).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde, February-June 2012, pp. 288 and 447, no. 382 (illustrated in color, p. 288, pl. 238; illustrated again in situ in Stein's apartment circa 1938, p. 393, pl. 384, no. 18).