Dog and Cock | Yale University Art Gallery

1921

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 × 30 1/8 in. (154.9 × 76.5 cm)
framed: 77 × 46 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (195.6 × 118.1 × 10.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
Accession Number: 1958.1
Geography: Made in France
Culture: Spanish
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

The artist, Paris; sold to Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1921 (PR inv. no. 197) [see note 1]; sold to Dr. Jerome Stonborough (1873–1938), Paris; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 17, 1940, lot 72; sold to Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, October 17, 1940 (PR inv. no. 215) [see note 2]; sold to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942 (MoMA no. 36.42); sold to Stephen Carlton Clark (1882–1960), New York, 1949 [see note 3]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1958

Note 1: (See, “Index card no. 197,” The Paul Rosenberg Archives, a Gift of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg, III, D.1.F. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, copy in accession file)

Note 2: (See, “Paintings purchased by Paul Rosenberg since arrival in US on September 20, 1940,” The Paul Rosenberg Archives, a Gift of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg, II.B.22. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, copy in accession file)

Note 3: The Museum of Modern Art sold “Dog and Cock” to raise funds for the acquisition of “Three Musicians,” by Pablo Picasso (MoMA no. 55.1949) from Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York. (See, letter from Alexandre Rosenberg, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York, to Francoise Forster-Hahn, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., April 25, 1964, copy in accession file)

Bibliography

Susan Greenberg Fisher et al., Picasso and the Allure of Language, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 1, 90, 92–95, no. 11, ill

Michael Conforti et al., The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, exh. cat. (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006), 177–79, 188, 316, 340, fig. 146

Calvin Harlan, Vision and Invention: A Course in Art Fundamentals (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986),

Jane Fluegel, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, ed. William Rubin, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980),

Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972),

Otto G. Ocvirk, Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice (Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown Co., 1968),

Francoise Forster-Hahn, French and School of Paris Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968), 20-21, ill

Lael Tucker Wertenbaker, The World of Picasso (New York: Time-Life Books, 1967),

Robert Rosenblum, Cubism and Twentieth Century Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1960), 102, fig. 15

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly 21 (1958), 227, ill

College Art Journal 17, no. 3 (1958), cover ill.

"New Acquisitions Issue," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 24, no. 1 (April 1958), 17, ill

Antonina Vallentin, Pablo Picasso (Paris: A. Michel, 1957), 249, ill

Paul Rosenberg & Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso (New York: Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1955), 4, ill

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, 4 (Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1951), no. 335, fig. 129

ARTnews Annual 20, pt. 2 (1950), 134, ill

Juan Merli, Picasso: El artista y la obra de nuestro tiempo, 2 (Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1948), fig. 252

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), 120, ill

"Abstracts at Modern," Art Digest 16 (April 15, 1942), 10, ill

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), 67, fig. 486

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Subject

cocks (birds) dogs (animals)

Inscriptions

U.L. side "Picasso / 21"

Signed

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Spain

Technical metadata and APIs