Pablo Picasso, Tasse et bananes

signed "Picasso" on the reverse
oil on panel
10 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27 x 21.3 cm)
Painted in 1908.

Provenance

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris
Roger Dutilleul, Paris
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Eugene and Dorothy Prakapas, New York (acquired from the above in November 2000)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Françoise Cachin, Tout l'œuvre peint de Picasso, 1907–1916, Milan, 1972, no. 169, pp. 95–96 (illustrated, p. 95)
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Picasso: The Cubist Years 1907–1916, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works, London, 1979, no. 208, p. 229 (illustrated; titled Cup and Fruit)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1906 a 1912, vol. 2, Paris, 1986, no. 100, pp. 48, 175 (illustrated, p. 48)
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Cubism (1907–1917), New York, 1990, no. 295, pp. 107, 499 (illustrated, p. 107; titled Cup and Tuber; dated 1909)