Combat of Centaurs

Prints and Drawings

December 6, 1959

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973

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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Combat of Centaurs
Origin: Spain
Date: Made 1959
Medium: Black pastel, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, fixed
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, upper right, in black chalk: "6.12.59.IV/Picasso" (underlined)
Dimensions: 507 × 658 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1002
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Edward Quinn and Roland Penrose, Picasso at Work (Doubleday, 1964), n. p. (ill.).
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso 19 (Paris, 1968), cat. 97 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, The Fifties II 1956–1959 (San Francisco, 2000), p. 366, cat. 59-317 (ill.), as “Combat of Centaurs”.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 15 and 203, cat. 150 (ill.).

Frankfurt, Germany, Frankfurter Kunstverein, “Picasso: 150 Handzeichnungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten,” May 29–July 4, 1965, n. p., cat. 126 (ill.); also Hamburg, Kunstverein Steinernes Haus.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 15 and 203, cat. 150 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago,” Feb. 20-May 12, 2013, p. 83, cat. 213 (ill.).

Galerie Louise Leiris [partial label]. Galerie Berggruen, Paris, by 1965 [Frankfurt 1965]. Alfred Hecht, London [London 1998 auc. cat.]; private collection, Britain; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 1, 1998, lot 161, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Zervos 97

Picasso Project 59-317

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