About the Artwork
Portrait of Manuel Pallares
1909
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Spanish
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 26 3/4 × 19 1/2 inches (67.9 × 49.5 cm) Framed: 37 1/4 × 30 3/4 × 3 3/8 inches (94.6 × 78.1 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II
62.126
Restricted
Markings
Inscribed, upper left: A mi queridissimo amigo Pallares. Recuerdo de su amigo Picasso. [translation: To my dearest friend, Pallares that he would remember. Regards from your friend Picasso.]
Provenance
Manuel Pallares.Anne and Henry Ford II (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1962-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Picasso. Exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery. London, 1960, no. 49 (pl. 10g). [lent by Saidenberg Gallery]
Picasso-An American Tribute. Exh. cat., Knoedler and Company. New York, 1962 (pl. 42).
Bulletin of the DIA 42, 1 (1962): pp. 3-4 (ill.).
Sele Arte 6, 62 (March-April 1963): p. 46, no. 65 (ill.).
DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 173.
Cinco Siglos de Obras Maestras. Exh. cat., Museo de Jade. San Jose, Costa Rica, p. 113, no. 44 (ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News/Detroit Free Press (April 18, 1982): p. 31 (ill.).
"Family Art Game, " DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News (April 14, 1985): p. 6 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 212-213 (ill.).
Rubin, William, ed. Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation. New York, 1996, p. 273 (ill.).
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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Manuel Pallares, 1909, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 62.126.
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