Le pigeon aux petits pois

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Le pigeon aux petit pois
Pablo Picasso , 1911
Oil on canvas
65 × 54 cm
Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

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Le pigeon aux petit pois ( French : dove with green peas ) is a painting by Pablo Picasso .

history

The picture was painted in 1911 and is a major work of Picasso's Cubist period. The materials are oil on canvas. It depicts a cubistically distorted pigeon with peas in ocher, gray and brown tones, on which the pigeon claw and the small peas can be recognized and the word CAfE can be seen in the upper right corner . The art collector Maurice Girardin bought it a year later (1884–1951) for 850 FF. In 1937 it was exhibited at the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life as part of the Paris World's Fair. The museum received the artwork from the legacy of Dr. Girardin in 1953. The painting is estimated to be worth 23 million euros.

Le pigeon aux petits pois was last uninsured in the Museum of Modern Art ( Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris ) in the 16th arrondissement of Paris , where the theft was discovered on May 20, 2010 at around 6:50 a.m.

On January 31, 2017, the trial of a facade climber, an antique dealer and a luxury watch seller was reported as suspects.

literature

  • Geneviève Nevejan: La collection du Docteur Girardin . Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, October 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until May 19, 2010, see text.
  2. ↑ Picasso and the Typography of Cubism (PDF; 9.1 MB)
  3. ↑ http://www.kubisme.info/kb956.html ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Ce domaine est peut-être à vendre! In: bluetravelguide.com. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Entering the modern through the window. In: FAZ.net . May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  6. ^ Museum burglary in Paris: painting worth 100 million euros stolen. In: Spiegel Online . May 20, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Jörg Diehl: Badly secured works of art: How museums slut with their millions of treasures. In: Spiegel Online . May 21, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  8. ^ Art theft: Pictures by Picasso and Matisse allegedly ended up in the trash sueddeutsche.de, January 31, 2017, accessed March 26, 2019.