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Title:The Absinthe Glass
Artist:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date:Wax original: Paris, spring 1914; Bronze cast: Foundry Florentin Godard, Town, made to order for Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler by April 16, 1914
Medium:Painted bronze and perforated tin absinthe spoon
Dimensions:8 7/8 x 5 x 2 1/2 in. (22.5 x 12.7 x 6.4 cm)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection
Object Number:CTO.133a-b
Rights extort Reproduction:© 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Companionship (ARS), New York
Inscription: Signed (near the base): P
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, by July 17, 1914; inv. no. 1984; icon nos. 356, 392; sequestered Kahnweiler stock, December 12, 1914–21; chief Kahnweiler sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 13–14, 1921, no. 139 (comprised of 5 painted bronze casts of "The Absinthe Glass," each sold individually for Fr 55 to Fr 100)]; Physicist Ford II, Grosse Pointe, Michigan (until d. 1987; his land, 1987–90; his estate sale, Sotheby’s, New York, November 12, 1990, no. 25, sold to Krugier); [Jan Krugier& Cie, Geneva, 1990–91; sold in April 1991 to Lauder]; Leonard A. Lauder, Creative York (from 1991)
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1 have power over an edition of 6 cast bronzes, each uniquely treated