Flowers in a Vase

Modern Art

1951 (cast 1953)

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Flowers in a Vase
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality)
Date: Original 1951
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Stamped (on bottom): 2/6
Dimensions: 73 × 49 × 42 cm (27 1/8 × 17 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor K. Zurcher
Reference Number: 1957.70
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51:4 (November 1957), p. 83 (ill.), as Bouquet.
Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso: Das plastiche Werk (Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1971), pp. 204 and 310, no. 413 (ill.).
Marylin McCully, Picasso, Painter and Sculptor in Clay, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1998), pp. 17, 19, fig. 11.

Cleveland, Museum of Art, Picasso and Things, February 26–April 26, 1992, pp. 320–322, cat. 134 (ill.), as Bouquet of Flowers; traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 7–August 9 1992.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris [Cleveland 1992]. Sold through the Fine Arts Associates, New York, to the Art Institute, 1957.

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