Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso
Portrait de Gustave Coquiot, ca. 1901
Oil on cardboard, 46 x 37 cm
Signed lower left
Zervos no. I.85, Daix no. VI.16
Provenance
Pierre Loeb, Paris (1) ▪ Alphonse Bellier, Paris (2) ▪ Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich (3) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich
(23 September 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (4) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the
Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 79 (1960).
(1) Zervos no. I.85.
(2) Picasso, "Blue" and "Rose" Periods 1901–1906, (exh. cat.) Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York 1936,
no. 5.
(3) AStEGB, Entry Book II, 21 September 1953.
(4) Entry Book as above, n. (3), with mention "gekauft am 23. 9."
Exhibitions
Picasso, "Blue" and "Rose" Periods 1901–1906, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York 1936, no. 5
(as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Century, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.,
London 1950, no. 32 (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Œuvres choisies du XXe siècle, Galerie Max
Kaganovitch, Paris 1951, no. 35 (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Cent portraits d'hommes du XIVe siècle à nos
jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris 1952, no. 72b (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Europäische Meister 1790–
1910, Kunstmuseum Winterthur 1955, no. 152 (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Picasso 1900–1955, Haus der
Kunst, Munich; Rheinisches Museum, Cologne; Kunsthalle Hamburg 1955–56, no. 5 (as Gustave
Coquiot). ▪ Der junge Picasso, Frühwerk und Blaue Periode, Kunstmuseum Bern 1984, no. 138 (as
Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Die Kunst des Handelns, Meisterwerke des 14. bis 18. Jahrhunderts bei Fritz und
Peter Nathan, Kunsthalle Tübingen 2005–06, no. 162 (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ El Modernismo, De
Sorolla à Picasso, 1880–1918, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2011, no. 30 (as Gustave
Coquiot). ▪ Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901, Courtauld Gallery, London 2013, no. 8.
References
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 1, Œuvres de 1895 à 1906, Paris 1932, no. 85, fig. 42 (left [as
Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Joan Merli, Picasso, Buenos Aires 1942, fig. 44 (21948 [as Gustave Coquiot]). ▪
Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer, Picasso antes Picasso, Barcelona 1946 (French edition: Picasso avant
Picasso, Geneva 1950, fig. 82 [as Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Denys Sutton, Picasso, Peintures, Époques
bleue et rose, Paris 1948, no. 3 ([as Gustave Coquiot]; 21955). ▪ Florent Fels, L'art vivant de 1900 à
nos jours, Geneva 1950, p. 65 (ill. [as Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Picasso,
Paris 1955, p. 1158, no. 15 (ill. [as Gustave Coquiot]; German edition: Stuttgart 1955; 21961;
English edition: London 1961). ▪ Raymond Cogniat, Picasso, Figures, Lausanne 1959, p. 11 (ill. [as
Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Pierre Daix, Georges Boudailles, Picasso 1900–1906, Catalogue raisonné de
l'œuvre peint, Neuchâtel 1966, pp. 11 (ill.), 192, no. VI.16 (ill. [as Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Josep Palau i
Fabre, Picasso Vivent, Infantesa i primera joventut d'un demiürg 1881–1907, Barcelona 1981, no.
571 (ill. [as Ambroise Vollard]; English edition: Picasso, The Early Years, New York & Oxford 1981;
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1996; French edition: Picasso vivant, Enfance et première jeunesse d'un démiurge 1881–1907, Paris
1981; 2Cologne 1998; German edition: Picasso, Kindheit und Jugend eines Genies 1881–1907,
Munich 1981; 2Cologne 1998; Spanish edition: Picasso Vivo 1881–1907, Barcelona 1981). ▪ John
Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. 1, New York 1991, pp. 199 (ill. [as Ambroise Vollard])–200
(German edition: Picasso, Leben und Werk, vol. 1, 1881–1906, Munich 1991, pp. 211 [ill. bottom]–
212; French edition: Vie de Picasso, vol. 1, 1881–1906, Paris 1992). ▪ Picasso photographe, 1901–
1916, (exh. cat.) Musée Picasso, Paris 1994, p. 43, fig. 17 (the painting in a studio photograph taken
by Picasso in 1901). ▪ Pierre Daix, Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris 1995, p. 750 (as Ambroise Vollard; 2Le
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nouveau Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris 2012, pp. 755–756). ▪ Michael FitzGerald, Making Modernism,
Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art, Berkeley etc. 1996, p. 29, fig. 6
(as Ambroise Vollard). ▪ Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881–1973, Cologne 1993, vol. 1,
Werke 1890–1936, p. 67 (ill. top [as Gustave Coquiot]). ▪ Laurence Madeline, Van Gogh, Picasso,
Paris 2006, p. 124, fig. 69 (as Gustave Coquiot). ▪ Elizabeth Cowling, Richard Kendall, Picasso looks
at Degas, (exh. cat.) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (Massachusetts) etc.
2010, fig. 81 (as Ambroise Vollard [?]). ▪ Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, The Picasso Project (ed.), Turn of the Century
1900–1901, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris, San Francisco 2010, no. 1901-196 (ill. [as Gustave
Coquiot]).
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 79; 1973/86, no. 136; 2004/05, no. 139. ▪
Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 303; Berlin 1958, no. 73; Munich 1958–59, no.
118; Zurich 2010, no. 79.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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