Boy Holding a Blue Vase

Artist Pablo Picasso Spanish, active in France, 1881 - 1973

Date1905

Place of BirthSpain

Place of DeathFrance

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsStretcher: 25 5/8 × 11 1/8 in. (65.1 × 28.3 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 30 7/8 × 16 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (78.4 × 41.9 × 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineThe Hyde Collection Trust, 1952

Object number1971.34

On View

On view

Collections

Modern and Contemporary Art
European Paintings & Sculpture

SignedSigned lower right: "Picasso."

MarkingsOn verso, on top stretcher bar: Rectangular paper label "177". On center stretcher bar, in pencil, "Mr. Topp" (?)/"PH167"/Oval stamp with writing, can't read the markings and it has been scratched out.

Description
Exhibition History"Picasso 1905-1906" Museum Picasso, Barcelona, Feb. 5- Apr. 19, 1992.

Kunstmuseum, Bern, May 8- July 26, 1992.

"Art of the 20th Century," The Hyde Collection, Dec. 4, 1993- Feb. 20, 1994."The Murray Collection: Art of the Twentieth Century, Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Hyde Collection, Dec. 4, 1993-Feb. 20, 1994.

"Focus on: Picasso", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 1995.

"Picasso's Human Vision", Portland Museum of Art, Maine, May 29- Sept. 6, 1999.

"1912 - Mission Moderne" Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne, Germany, August 21 -December 30 2012.

"Rediscovering Picasso: Paris/Barcelona and the Blue Period," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 9, 2021 - Jan. 16, 2022; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Feb. 26-June 12, 2022.

"Picasso 1906," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 14, 2023 - March 4, 2024.

Provenance1905, Barcelona, Spain, Paco Durio
1906, Paris, Ambroise Vollard
by 1912, Dusseldorf, Germany, Alfred Flechtheim (dealer)
by 1943, New York, NY, Seligmann and Co, Inc.
1943, Glens Falls, NY, Mrs. Charlotte P. Hyde,
1952, Glens Falls, NY The Hyde Collection Trust