Inv. n°: MMoCA222MA

Picasso en Minotaure (Picasso as a Minotaur)

Signed and titled on mount recto.

h. 29.5 x w. 22.9 cm

Printed c. 1937

Gelatin silver print mounted to board

Provenance

  • The Estate of Dora Maar, Piasa
  • Les photographies de Dora Maar, Paris
  • Philips, The Odyssey of Collecting, New York, 20th November 1998
  • Joy of Giving Something Foundation Day Sale, 4th April 2017
  • Private collection, New York
  • Acquired at Bruce Silverstein Gallery LLC, New York, 25th February 2020, lot 17

Publications

  • Piasa, Les photographies de Dora Maar, 20th November 1998, lot 160
  • M. A. Caws, Dora Maar: With & Without Picasso, a Biography, Thames & Hudson, London, 2000, p. 145
  • M. A. Caws, Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 2000, p. 145
  • Baldassari, Picasso: Love and War, 1935-1945, Flammarion, Paris, 2006, p. 103
  • L. Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and Picasso, Rizzoli, New York, 2017, p. 189
  • Ville de Mougins, "C'est quoi cette oeuvre?'", Mougins Infos, Eté 2021, no. 79, p. 29
  • de l'air, Nice, 2023, p. 57
  • "C'est quoi cette oeuvre ?", Mougins infos, Mougins, April 2023, n° 88, p. 31

Exhibitions

  • Dora Maar: Fotografa, Centre Cultural Bancaixa, Bancaixa, Spain, January 1995 — March 1995
  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2020
  • Picasso vu par les autres, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 6th April 2023 — 30th September 2023

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