Modern and Contemporary Art Still Life with a Glass and a Package of Tobacco (Composition) Made in France, Europe1922 Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973 Oil on canvas Currently not on view 1952-61-97 A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952 |
ProvenanceJacques Zoubaloff (1876-1941), Paris, probably by 1929 [1]; sale, Zoubaloff Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 27 & 28, 1935, lot no. 164 (as "Nature morte"); purchased by Douglas Cooper, Mayor Gallery, London (Mayor Gallery, no. 1848); sold to A. E. Gallatin, New York, June 13, 1936 [2]; bequest to PMA, 1952. 1. Guillaume Janneau, L'Art Cubiste, Paris, 1929, pl. 43 as "Peinture". Janneau acted as adviser to Zoubaloff in the formation of his collection, and most of the works illustrated in L'Art Cubiste belonged to the Zoubaloff collection. 2. See Kosinski, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, 1990, p. 17. |
