Les Noces de Pierrette

Pablo Picasso, Les Noces de Pierrette, (1905) 23.5

Les Noces de Pierrette (English:The marriage of Pierrette) is a painting by the Spanish artist and sculptor, Pablo Picasso. Painted in 1905, during Picasso's Blue Period; a time when the artist faced poverty and depression following the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901.

Sales history

The painting was acquired in 1907 by Josef Stránský, an art dealer and a friend of Picasso's. From 1945 to 1962, the painting was owned by Picasso's son Paulo Picasso.^[1]

The painting was owned by Joan Whitney Payson, and it was consigned by her daughter, Lorinda de Roulet. The painting was owned by the Swedish investment banker and mecenat Fredrik Roos when it was sold at Binoche et Godeau in Paris on November 30, 1989.^[1] The buyer, Tomonori Tsurumaki, a real-estate developer, investment banker and owner of Autopolis racetrack, purchased the painting for the sum of $51,670,000, making it one of the world's most expensive paintings.^[2]

With the collapse of Tsurumaki's company, Nippon Tri-Trust, the painting ended up in the hands of the construction company Hazama, which had constructed Tsurumaki's racetrack. Hazama, having run into financial difficulties, put the painting up as collateral when the firm took a loan from Lake Credit Company. Thus, Lake Credit Company came into possession of Les Noces de Pierrette. When Lake Credit Company sold its stake in the mainline consumer loan business to GE Capital, Les Noces de Pierrette (along with 500 other paintings worth approximately $200 million) became the property of GE Capital. Presently, Les Noces de Pierrette is secured in the vault of Mitsui Trust Bank.

Pablo Picasso

Periods	Blue (1901–1904) Rose (1904–1906) African (1907–1909) Cubism (1910–1919)

Lists of works	1889–1900 1901–1910 1911–1920 1921–1930 1931–1940 1941–1950 1951–1960 1961–1970 1971–1973

Major works	Child with a Dove (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1902) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1905-06) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c.1921) The Three Dancers (1925) Vollard Suite (1930-37) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) Bull's Head (1942) The Charnel House (c.1944-48) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1950s) Baboon and Young (1951) Massacre in Korea (1951) Sylvette (1954) Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955) Don Quixote (1955) Las Meninas (1957) Jacqueline (1961) Chicago Picasso (1967)

Partners	Fernande Olivier (1904 to 1911) Eva Gouel (1912 to her death in 1915) Olga Khokhlova (married 1918, to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927 to 1935, mother of Maya) Dora Maar (1936 to 1944) Françoise Gilot (1944 to 1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) Geneviève Laporte (during the 1950s) Jacqueline Roque (married 1961 to Picasso's death 1973)

Family	Paloma Picasso Claude Picasso José Ruiz y Blasco

Colleagues and friends	Carlos Casagemas Marc Chagall Georges Braque Julio González Max Jacob Henri Matisse Jaime Sabartés

Patrons and biographers	Gertrude Stein Etta and Claribel Cone Douglas Cooper John Richardson Daniel Kahnweiler Paul Rosenberg Ambroise Vollard Patrick O'Brian

Museums	Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Musée Picasso (Paris) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga)

Films	Van Renoir tot Picasso (1948) Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) Picasso (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001)

Plays by Picasso	Desire Caught by the Tail c. (1941) The Four Little Girls c. (1947-1948)

Poetry by Picasso	Picasso's poetry

See also	Fundación Picasso Blanquita Suárez Picasso and the Ballets Russes Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria

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References

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^ Japanese Developer Buys Picasso at Record Price - New York Times

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Les Noces de Pierrette