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Title:Siesta
Artist:Jules Pascin (American (born Bulgaria), Vidin 1885–1930 Paris)
Date:1912
Medium:Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions:18 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. (45.4 x 37.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Object Number:49.70.4
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): pascin [underlined]
the artist (1912–13; sold on March 1, 1913, for $32.50, to Quinn); John Quinn, New York (1913–d. 1924; his estate, 1924–27; his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 10, 1927, no. 309, as "The Siesta," sold for $210, to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1927–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment. "International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show)," February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 480 (as "No. 4 Siesta").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 84; as "Reclining Woman").
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 205 (as "Reclining Woman").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Pascin on Paper," March 9–June 13, 1999, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 14.
"Sale of the Quinn Collection is Completed." Art News 25 (February 19, 1927), p. 10, no. 309.
1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. New York, 1963, p. 199, no. 480.
Milton W. Brown. The Story of the Armory Show. [n.p.], [1963], p. 275, no. 480, as "No. 4, Siesta".
B. L. Reid. The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends. New York, 1968, pp. 149–50, 293.
Alfred Werner, ed. Pascin: 110 Drawings. New York, 1972, pp. xvi, no., 31, pl. 31, as "Reclining Woman".
Alfred Werner. "Pascin's American Years." American Art Journal 4 (Spring 1972), p. 90.
Donald E. Gordon. Modern Art Exhibitions, 1900–1916: Selected Catalogue Documentation. Vol. 2, Munich, 1974, p. 673.
Judith Zilczer. "The Noble Buyer:" John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, 1978, pp. 176, 194, confuses nos. 132 and 309 in Exh. New York 1927.
Yves Hemin et al. Pascin. Catalogue raisonné. Vol. 1, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins. Paris, 1984, pp. 20, 170, no. 339, ill.
Milton W. Brown. The Story of the Armory Show. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 1963]. New York, 1988, p. 300, no. 480.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner. American Artists in Paris, 1919–1929. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1988, pp. 90–91, fig. 44.
Jessica Murphy inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 40–41, 245–46, no. 14, ill. (color).
Marilyn Satin Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt, ed. The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution. Exh. cat., New-York Historical Society. New York and London, 2013, pp. 453, 468.
Jules Pascin (American (born Bulgaria), Vidin 1885–1930 Paris)
1918
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