Arm was made in Vallauris, where Picasso first began making ceramics in 1947. In 1951 he also made several small bronze sculptures, including two hands and two forearms that, like this example, include a single hole near the wrist or elbow. It is likely that these works were intended as door knockers.
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Marking: Stamped on far end of arm: EGodard /Cire perdue/ 2/2
[Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris; acquired from the artist; stock no. 15924; sold to Bernard]; [Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris; sold to O'Hana]; [O'Hana Gallery, London, by 1972–at least 1973; stock no. 1570]; (sale, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1975, no. 80); private collection, New Rochelle, N. Y.; (sale, Phillips, Son & Neale, London, April 3, 1989, no. 7); Arthur Luce Klein and Luce Arthur Klein, New Rochelle, N. Y. (until 1992; their gift to MMA)
London. O'Hana Gallery Ltd. "Summer Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," May 17–September 15, 1972, no. 59.
London. O'Hana Gallery Ltd. "Summer Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Including a Collection of Paintings by Eugène Galien-Laloue," May 24–September 15, 1973, no. 120.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar," June 12–September 4, 1994, not in catalogue (not in brochure; shown at entrance to the exhibition).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Evocative Fragments," February 14–June 14, 1998, no catalogue.
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," July 4–September 6, 1998, no. 99.
Nagoya City Art Museum. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," September 12–November 29, 1998, no. 99.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Small Bronzes," September 5, 2003–March 14, 2004, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 27–August 1, 2010, no. 89.
Werner Spies. Sculpture by Picasso, with a Catalogue of the Works. New York, 1971, p. 309, no. 415 (unspecified cast).
Robert Rosenblum. The Sculpture of Picasso. Exh. cat., Pace Gallery. New York, 1982, p. 70, no. 22, ill. p. 30.
Linda Yablonsky. "Heads and Shoulders: The Met Exhumes Bodily 'Fragments'." Time Out, New York (April 23–30, 1998).
Mariel Jardines. The Picasso Project: Picasso's Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973. Ed. Herschel Chipp and Alan Wofsy. Vol. 10, The Fifties I, 1950–1955. San Francisco, 2000, p. 62, no. 51-073, ill. (unspecified cast), calls it "Forearm".
Marla Prather inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 241–43, no. 89, ill. (color).
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1929
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