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Pablo Picasso Hercule tue le Centaure Nessus (Hercules Kills the Centaur Nessus)

Pencil on paper, 330 x 257 mm on recto, upper right, signed in pencil: “Picasso” on verso, lower left, inscribed in pencil: “IV/69”

Provenance: (…) Probably by latest December 1947: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Aschbach (per Gurlitt Papers) By descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt

Primary sources: Hildebrand Gurlitt and Cornelius Gurlitt Papers: Photographs: BArch, N 1826 Bild-0850 [=7.1_F777], [n.d.] Seizure Inventory [Sicherstellungsverzeichnis], 2012, no. SV 41/025

Hildebrand Gurlitt and Cornelius Gurlitt Papers – possible references: Correspondence: BArch, N 1826/177, fol. 275 f. [=vol. 6, fol. 216 f.] Gitta Gurlitt to Hildebrand Gurlitt, 3 January 1948 Ibid., fol. 277 [=vol. 6, fol. 218]. List Gitta Gurlitt, 9 December 1947

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Further sources consulted (selected): Ausstellung Pablo Picasso. Exh.cat., Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, February 1913. Salmon, André. Le Manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau: Orné de dessins a la plume de Pablo Picasso. Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1919. Raynal, Maurice. Picasso. Munich: Delphin, 1921. Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Exh. cat., Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, 1922. Von Delacroix bis Picasso: Hundert Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen französischer Meister des XIX. Jahrhunderts. Exh.cat., Kunsthandlung Hugo Perls, Berlin, February–March 1925. George, Waldemar. Picasso: Dessins. Paris: Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1926. Schürer, Oscar. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 49/50 of Junge Kunst. Berlin: Klinhardt & Biermann, 1927. Pablo Picasso: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Pastelle 1902–1927. Exh.cat., Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, 16 October–10 November 1927. Level, André. Picasso. Paris: Crès, 1928. Französische Graphik von Ingres bis Picasso. Exh.cat., Graphisches Kabinett J.B. Neumann, Munich, 1929. Zervos, Christian. “Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide illustrées par Picasso,” pp. 511–518. In: Cahiers d’art, vol. 5, no. 10, Paris, 1930. Geiser, Bernhard. Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Catalogue illustré de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1899-1931. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1933. Catalogue des tableaux modernes, gouaches, pastels [...] œuvres importantes de Claude Monet, estampe de Picasso, bronzes de Rodin appartenant à Marc François. Auct. Cat. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 March 1935. Les Ventes de Tableaux, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins, Miniatures à l’Hôtel Drouot, Répértoire et prix d’adjudication, Octobre 1940 à Juillet 1941. Paris: L’Archipel, 1942. André Fage ed. Les ventes publiques en France, Réper-toire général des prix: 1943-1944. Vol. 1: Tableaux, Paris: Bureau international d’Édition et de Publicité, 1945. Les Ventes de Tableaux, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins, Miniatures à l’Hôtel Drouot, Répértoire et prix d’adjudication, Septembre 1941 à Juillet 1942. Paris: L’Archipel, 1942. Les Ventes de Tableaux, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins, Miniatures à l’Hôtel Drouot, Répértoire et prix d’adjudication, Septembre 1942 à Juillet 1943. Paris: L’Archipel, 1943. Zervos, Christian. Dessins de Picasso 1892–1948. Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1949. Jardot, Maurice. Pablo Picasso: Zeichnungen. Stuttgart: Hatje, 1959. Leymarie, Jean. Picasso: Zeichnungen. Geneva: Skira, 1967. Geiser, Bernhard, and Brigitte Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes 1899–1931. Vol I. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990. Léal, Brigitte. Carnets Picasso: catalogue des dessins. 2 vols. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996. Picasso und die Schweiz: Meisterwerke aus Schweizer Sammlungen. Exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Bern, 5 October 2001–6 January 2002, Bern 2001. Das Buch als Bild: Picasso ‚illustriert’. Exh. cat. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 14 September–24 November 2002; Kunstsammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 12 January–23 February 2003; Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster, 7 March–23. Mai 2003, Wolfenbüttel 2002. The Picasso Project. Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, a Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973. Vol. 13. San Francisco: Wofsy Fine Art, 1997. Mallen, Enrique, ed. On-line Picasso Project, Digital Catalogue Raisonné. Sam Houston State University. (https://picasso.shsu.edu/) 18 November 2017 www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/478195 © Task Force Schwabing Art Trove / Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 478195 updated by Gurlitt Provenance Research Project

Archives Nationales, Paris Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Bildindex) Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris Bundesarchiv, Berlin Correspondence Hildebrand Gurlitt Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume Database “Central Collecting Point München” Database “Entartete Kunst” Database “Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring” Getty Provenance Index, German Sales Catalogs Heidelberger Digitale Bibliothek (Auktionskataloge; Heidelberger Historische Bestände) Institut national de l’histoire d’art, Paris (French sale catalogues) Lootedart.com Lost Art Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Archives diplomatiques, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Paris (Documentation de la conservation) Musée Picasso, Barcelona Musée Picasso, Paris National Archives, College Park, Maryland Répertoire des Biens Spoliés Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague Stadtarchiv Düsseldof Verzeichnis national wertvoller Kunstwerke (“Reichsliste von 1938”) Witt Library, London Zentralarchiv des internationalen Kunsthandels, Cologne

Note: This drawing is a study for the composition Hercule tue le centaure Nessus (Geiser and Baer, no. 160) that was printed in the illustrated monograph of 1930, Les Métamorphoses. The personal papers found in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Salzburg home include a collection of about 2,400 photographs of artworks. Photograph no. 7.1_F777 is a reproduction of this work; inscribed on verso: “Film 10a Nr. 6”, “Picasso 1[?]9”. A reference to a Picasso drawing titled 3 Figuren can be found in the correspondence of Hildebrand Gurlitt. It was sent to a restorer in December 1947. The original report on the provenance of this work, as submitted to the Task Force Schwabing Art Trove, was made accessible online at www.taskforce-kunstfund.de as of 14 January 2016. That report was updated by the Gurlitt Provenance Research Project on 18 November 2017.

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