Man with a Pipe (L'Homme a la pipe)

Man with a Pipe (L'Homme a la pipe)

c. 1903
Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973
Born: Málaga, Spain
Work Locations: France
Object
drawing
Medium
Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper
Accession Number
2019.562
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Pablo Picasso (Spanish). Man with a Pipe (L'Homme a la pipe). c. 1903. Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper. The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection. 2019.562.
Dimensions
height: 10.25 in, 26.0350 cm; width: 7.5 in, 19.0500 cm; frame height: 15.75 in, 40.0050 cm; frame width: 12.875 in, 32.7025 cm; frame depth: 1 in, 2.5400 cm; height: 11.0625 in, 28.0988 cm; width: 8.4375 in, 21.4313 cm
Inscription
Date inscribed by the artist on verso in black chalk, "1903" [cut off]
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
Paul Huldschinsky, Berlin; Mrs. A. H. Fürstenberg (formerly Mrs. Paul Huldschinsky), Amsterdam, 1940s; with Wildenstein, London and Buenos Aires, about 1953; from which acquired by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], 1963; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
Exhibition History
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1945–49 (special loan)
  • "The Art of Drawing, 1500–1950"—Wildenstein, London, 1953, no. 127
  • Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, special exhibition for opening of the 1965 wing, 1965–66
  • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1967–69, exhibited on extended loan
  • "French and Italian Master Drawings from the Collection of Esmond Bradley Martin, Jr."—Denver Art Museum, 05/01–06/27/1982, exh. cat. by Phyllis Hattis, 1982, no. 15, pp. 5–6, 38–39, repr.
  • "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014