Pablo Picasso
Three Dancers
1924
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Pablo Picasso
Three Dancers
1924
Physical Qualities
Pen and ink, Sheet: 356 × 495 mm. (14 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.493
In 1925 Picasso went to Monte Carlo where he attended a number of Ballets Russes performances. There he depicted dancers in a series of line drawings in the classical style. Their sentimental mood and the use of a spare style to outline the contours of the figures recalls the drawings of circus performers from 1905. The surety of Picasso's fluent draftsmanship contrasts with the casual poses taken by the young men, lost in dreamy detachment.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone, by purchase August 5, 1936; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne by purchase; Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin, 1933 (per Rosengart archives)
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, "Picasso and the Stage," 20 October 2006 - 21 January 2007, p. 152.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Cubism to Classicism," November 14, 2001-February 3, 2002.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, West Germany, "Picasso's Classicism," 17 April - 31 July 1988, cat. 70.
"Picasso and the Man," The Art Gallery of Toronto, 11 January - 16 February 1964, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 28 February - 31 March 1964, p. 99, (illus pl 90).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Cubism to Classicism," November 14, 2001-February 3, 2002.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, West Germany, "Picasso's Classicism," 17 April - 31 July 1988, cat. 70.
"Picasso and the Man," The Art Gallery of Toronto, 11 January - 16 February 1964, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 28 February - 31 March 1964, p. 99, (illus pl 90).
Brenda Richardson, "Dr Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1985, p. 198.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 5 (ouevres de 1923 a 1925), Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1952, pl. 437.
Christian Zervos, Dessins de Picasso, Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1949, p. 64, no. 91.
"Selections from the Cone Collection," BMA News, vol. XIII, number 1 (October 1949), p. 28 (illus).
Sergio Solmi, Pablo Picasso, Milan: 1945, pl. 28.
Arts and Architecture, vol. 73, p. 8.
Inscribed: upper right in black ink: "Picasso/25"
