Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
詹姆斯及瑪麗琳·阿爾斯多夫珍藏
巴布羅·畢加索

《聖母與花環》

細節
Picasso
巴布羅·畢加索
《聖母與花環》
簽名:Picasso(右下)
水粉 水彩 紙本
24 3/4 x 19吋(63 x 48.1公分)
1904年作
來源
巴黎馬克斯·潘雷克(1931年,並由後人繼承,直至至少1989年2月)
1989年11月28日,倫敦蘇富比,匿名拍賣,拍品編號48
洛杉磯大衛·坦科爾畫廊
已故藏家於2001年2月8日購自上述收藏
出版
C. Zervos著《Pablo Picasso》,第1冊,巴黎,1932年,編號229(作品簽名前插圖,圖號101)
P. Daix及G. Boudaille著《Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906》,納沙泰爾,1966年,第247頁,編號XI20(簽作品名前插圖)
P. Lecaldano著《Picasso: Blue and Rose Period》,英國,1971年,第97頁,編號129(作品簽名前插圖;作品名稱《Mother and Child Adorned with Garlands》)
J. Palau i Fabre著《Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907》,紐約,1981年,第544頁,編號990(作品簽名前彩色插圖,第382頁)
J. Richardson著《A Life of Picasso, 1881-1901》,第I冊,紐約,1991年,第306頁(插圖;作品名稱《Virgin and Child》)
B. Léal,C. Piot及M.-L Bernadac著《The Ultimate Picasso》,紐約,2000年,第504頁,編號124(插圖,第66頁)
C. Palermo著《Modernism and Authority: Picasso and His Milieu around 1900》,奧克蘭,2015年,第150至151頁(插圖,第151頁,圖12)
展覽
1931年6月 「Thirty Years of Pablo Picasso」展覽 勒菲弗畫廊(亞歷克斯·里德及勒菲弗) 倫敦 編號4(作品名稱《La Vierge de Tolède》,1903至1904年作
拍場告示
Please note that this painting has been requested by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., for their exhibition Rediscovering Picasso: Paris/Barcelona and the Blue Period which will be shown June 27–September 20, 2020, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and October 24, 2020–January 24, 2021, at The Phillips Collection.

拍品專文

Rendered in delicate veils of gouache and watercolor, this poignantly poetic Madone bears quiet witness to a moment of profound transition for Picasso. In April 1904, the 23-year old artist, who had already paid three visits to Paris, left Barcelona and settled again in the French capital, this time for good. He rented a studio at 13, rue Ravignan, in a dilapidated artist’s building nicknamed the Bateau-Lavoir after its resemblance to a rickety laundry barge. Determined to make this stay in Paris a success, Picasso found new friends outside his accustomed circle of Catalan transplants, especially the poets Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, and André Salmon, relationships that led to a broadening of his intellectual interests and served to deepen his engagement with the cosmopolitan French culture in which he had chosen to live and work.
Although Picasso remained a typically penniless bohemian artist, he had reason to feel hopeful—and little by little, during the summer and fall of 1904, the blue light that had long pervaded his work began to lose its chill. In the present painting, the mother-and-child grouping stands out luminous and golden against the atmospheric, indigo ground, the titular garland enveloping the pair as though holding the darkness at bay. Since his first, powerfully affecting visit to the Saint-Lazare women’s prison in autumn 1901, Picasso had repeatedly painted indigent, alienated young mothers with their ill-fated infants asleep in their arms. Here, by contrast, he captured the joys rather than the struggles of motherhood. The figures are unified by their shared gaze and interlocking gestures, creating an intimate, deeply human vision of maternal love that evokes Raphael’s treatment of the Madonna and Child.
As ambitious and industrious as he was during these years, Picasso always made time for romance. Soon after arriving in Paris, he began a relationship with a young woman named Madeleine, whose bird-like features and waifish physique recur in his work through the next spring. He had flings with two sulky-looking gamines—Margot Luc, whose father Frédé owned the Lapin Agile, and Alice Géry, who would later marry André Derain—and he met his first real love, Fernande Olivier, in August 1904. Around this time, Madeleine found herself pregnant with Picasso’s child, an experience that deeply affected the artist—she did not carry to term. “An unusually tender and seraphic Virgin and Child”—the present painting—“may have been done in the spirit of what-might-have-been,” John Richardson wrote. “Picasso would always be torn between longing to have children and exasperation at the responsibilities” (op. cit., 1991, p. 306).

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