THE NATIONAL GALLERY IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE PICASSO: CHALLENGING THE PAST 25 February – 7 June 2009 The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE The National Gallery is able to provide immunity from seizure under part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. This Act provides protection from seizure for cultural objects from abroad on loan to temporary exhibitions in approved museums and galleries in the UK. The conditions are: The object is usually kept outside the UK It is not owned by a person resident in the UK Its import does not contravene any import regulations It is brought to the UK for public display in a temporary exhibition at a museum or gallery The borrowing museum or gallery is approved under the Act The borrowing museum has published information about the object For further enquiries, please contact [email protected]. Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed in this document, which are intended to form part of the forthcoming exhibition, ‘Picasso: Challenging the Past’. Copyright Notice: no images from these pages should be reproduced without permission. The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE PICASSO: CHALLENGING THE PAST 25 February – 7 June 2009 Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed below: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Succession Picasso / DACS 2009 X6164 La Coiffure 1906 Place of manufacture: Paris or Gosol Painting Oil on canvas Support: 174.9 x 99.7 cm Inscriptions: Signed bottom left ‘Picasso’ Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Anonymous Gift (53.140.3) Lender’s name and address: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York New York 10028 USA Accession Number: 53.140.3 Provenance: Acquired from the artist by the dealer Ambroise Vollard, Paris, circa 1906-7; with Hugo Perls, Berlin, circa 1924-30; The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE with Pierre Matisse, New York, 1930; bought by Stephen C. Clark, New York, 1930; his gift to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1937; deaccessioned and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1953 (1) Note that this object has a complete history of ownership from the beginning of the year 1933 to the end of the year 1945. It is not included on the list of works with incomplete provenance published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on their website at http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/provenance/pv_paintings.asp?displayMode=2 (1) Complete provenance published by Rebecca Rabinow (ed.), Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006-7, cat. 149, p. 388; previously published in part by Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso: The Blue & Rose Periods. A Catalogue of the Paintings 1900-1906, New York, 1967, cat. XIV.20, p. 289. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) © Photo: MoMA, NY / Scala / Succession Picasso / DACS 2009 X6356 Nude with Joined Hands (Grand Nu Rose – Fernande) 1906 Place of manufacture: Gosol Painting Oil on canvas Support: 153.7 x 94.3 cm No inscriptions The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection Lender’s name and address: Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York NY 10019-5497 USA The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Accession Number: SPC27.1990 Provenance: Acquired from the artist by Leo and Gertrude Stein, circa 1906 (1); Bequeathed to Alice B. Toklas on the death of Gertrude Stein in 1946 (2); Acquired by William S. Paley on the death of the above in 1967 (3); Bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on the death of the above, 1997 (1) John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: 1881-1906, vol. 1, London, 1991, pp. 445, 514 n. 36. (2) Alice Toklas was the long-term companion and partner of Gertrude Stein. (3) Margaret Potter in Gertrude Stein & Picasso & Juan Gris, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1971. Note that this object has a complete history of ownership from the beginning of the year 1933 to the end of the year 1945. It is not included on the list of works with incomplete provenance published by the Museum of Modern Art on their website at http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) © Photo: MoMA, NY / Scala / Succession Picasso / DACS 2009 X6162 Self-Portrait 1901 Place of manufacture: Paris Painting Oil on cardboard Support: 54 x 31.8 cm Inscriptions: Signed top left ‘Yo’ and bottom right ‘Picasso’ The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs John Hay Whitney Bequest 1998 Lender’s name and address: Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York NY 10019-5497 USA The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Accession Number: 587.1998 Provenance: Private collection, Nice (1) Paris art market (2) P. Chadourne & Colle, Paris Purchased by Mr and Mrs John Hay Whitney, New York from the above in February 1949 (3) Bequeath to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, by Mrs John Hay Whitney, 1998 This painting has incomplete provenance information for the years 1933-45 and is included on the list of works with incomplete provenance published by the Museum of Modern Art on their website (see note 3 below). It has been checked on the Art Loss Register and is not registered as being stolen or missing. (1) Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906, New York, 1967, cat. V.1. The first volume of Zervos’ Catalogue géneral, published in 1932 and thus before the rise of the Nazi party, does not give a location for this work. (2) William Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972, p. 189. (3) Provenance published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on their website at http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/items/587.98.html Exhibitions: Galaries Durand Ruel, Paris, 1949, no. 12 New York Private Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951 Paintings from Private Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955 Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, 1957 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1958 Yale Alumni Collections, Yale University Art Gallery, 1960 The John Hay Whitney Collection, Tate Gallery, London, 1960-1 Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Grand Palais, Paris, 1996-7 Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997 Picasso et les Maîtres, Grand Palais, Paris, 2008-9 Select Bibliography: Anthony Fredrick Blunt and Phoebe Pool, Picasso: The Formative Years, A Study of his Sources. London and Greenwich, 1962, no. 42. Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906, New York, 1967, V.1. William Slattery Lieberman, Pablo Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods, London, 1955, pl. 9. Marily McCully, Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906, Washington, 1997, fig. 66. Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Life and Work of the Early Years 1881-1907, Oxford, 1981, p. 270, fig. 678. John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: 1881-1906, vol. 1, London, 1991, pp. 228-9. John Rewald, ‘French Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney,’ Connoisseur, March-April 1957, p. 137. William Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972, p. 189. William Rubin et al., Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, New York, 1996, p. 124. Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: Documents iconographiques, Geneva, 1954, No. 63. Christian Zervos, Catalogue géneral illustré de l’ouvre de Picasso, 33 vols, Paris, 1932-1978, vol. I.,113. The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York / Succession Picasso / DACS 2009 X6307 Fernande with a Black Mantilla 1905-6 Place of Manufacture: Paris Painting Oil on canvas Support: 100 x 81 cm No inscriptions on front of painting Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Thannhauser Collection, Bequest, Hilde Thannhauser, 1991 Lender’s name and address: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10128 USA Accession number: 91.3914 Provenance: Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Collection, Berlin; Elsa von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (later Countess Kesselstatt), Berlin and Ascona, from September 1927 (gifted upon marriage); Sold to Walter Feilchenfeldt Gallery, Zurich, by Kesselstatt, ca. 1955; Sold to Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, by Feilchenfeldt, 1956; Bequest to Hilde Thannhauser, Bern, 1976; Bequest to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1991.(1) (1) Information supplied directly by the Guggenheim Museum. Note that this object has a complete history of ownership from the beginning of the year 1933 to the end of the year 1945. It is not included on the list of works with incomplete provenance published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through the Nazi-Era Provenance Information Portal at http://www.nepip.org/. It has been checked on the Art Loss Register and is not registered as being stolen or missing. The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) © San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Succession Picasso / DACS 2009 X6346 Les Femmes d’Alger E 16 January 1955 Place of manufacture: Paris Painting Oil on canvas Support: 46.1 x 55 cm Inscription: signed upper right ‘Picasso’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gift of Wilbur D.