the artist (1923–25; sold in January 1925 through the Reinhardt Galleries, New York, for $14,000, to Kerrigan); Joseph J. Kerrigan and Esther Slater Kerrigan, New York (1925–28; her gift to MMA)
New York. Reinhardt Galleries. "Ignacio Zuloaga Exhibition," January 4–31, 1925, extended to February 6, 1925, no. 29.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "The Horse in Art: Paintings–17th to 20th Century," July–August 1954, no. 40.
San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "The Horse in Art: Paintings–17th to 20th Century," August–September 1954, no. 40.
Kansas City, Mo. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. "The Horse in Art: Paintings–17th to 20th Century," October–November 1954, no. 40.
St. Petersburg, Fla. Museum of Fine Arts. "Spanish 19th Century Painters," January 15–February 18, 1973, no catalogue.
Jacksonville, Fla. Cummer Gallery of Art. "Spanish 19th Century Painters," March 6–April 8, 1973, no catalogue.
New York. Spanish Institute. "Ignacio Zuloaga in America, 1909–1925," February 2–April 29, 1989, no. 9.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. "Sorolla y Zuloaga: Dos Visiones para un Cambio de Siglo," December 19, 1997–February 22, 1998, no. 67 (as "El patio de caballos").
Madrid. Fundación Cultural MAPFRE Vida. "Sorolla, Zuloaga: Dos Visiones para un Cambio de Siglo," April 8–June 28, 1998, no. 51 (as "El patio de caballos").
Seville. Real Alcázar. "Mil años del caballo en el arte hispánico," April 5–June 17, 2001, no. 103 (as "Victimas de la fiesta [El patio de caballos]").
"Zuloaga Painting 'Victims of Fiesta,' Sold for $14,000." New York Herald, New York Tribune (January 18, 1925), p. 19.
Camille Mauclair. "Ignacio Zuloaga." L'Art et les Artistes 11 (March 1925), ill. p. 189, calls it "Les Victimes de la Corrida".
J. M. L. "Accessions and Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 24 (January 1929), pp. 30, 32, notes that according to the donor of this work "the artist painted this picture for his son and it was only after great persuasion that he consented to part with it".
"Hero of Old Greece in Museum Statue. Gifts of Paintings." New York Times (January 14, 1929), p. 19.
Mrs. Steuart Erskine. "Modern Masters at Barcelona. II.—D. Ignacio Zuluaga [sic]." Apollo 11 (January 1930), p. 42, ill., calls it "The Victims of the Feast".
Harry B. Wehle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings. New York, 1940, p. 307.
Ignacio de Beryes. Ignacio Zuloaga, o una manera de ver a España. Barcelona, [1944], unpaginated, ill., calls it "El Patio de Caballos".
Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. Los paisajes de Ignacio Zuloaga. Pamplona, Colombia, 1948, p. 4, pl. 17, calls it "El patio de caballos de la Plaza de Pamplona" and locates it still in the Kerrigan collection, New York.
Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. La vida y el arte de Ignacio Zuloaga. San Sebastián, Spain, 1950, p. 239, no. 505, calls it "El patio de caballos (Pamplona)" and notes that it was painted in Paris; lists it still in the Kerrigan collection.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born in or before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1980, vol. 1, p. 198; vol. 2, ill. p. 218.
Suzanne L. Stratton. Ignacio Zuloaga in America, 1909–1925. Exh. cat., Spanish Institute. New York, 1989, pp. 23, 39, no. 9, ill.
Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. The Life and Work of Ignacio Zuloaga. Rev. English ed. (1st ed., 1950). Barcelona, 1991, p. 517, no. 505, calls it "El patio de los caballos (Pamplona) [The Horse Yard—Pamplona]".
Manuel Delgado inMil años del caballo en el arte hispánico. Exh. cat., Real Alcazar, Seville. [Madrid], 2001, p. 33.
Miriam Alzuri inMil años del caballo en el arte hispánico. Exh. cat., Real Alcazar, Seville. [Madrid], 2001, pp. 353–56, no. 103, ill. (color).
Janis A. Tomlinson inThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 9, Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century European Drawings. New York, 2002, pp. 323, 325, erroneously locates it in the Hispanic Society of America, New York.
José Romero Portillo. Ignacio Zuloaga en Sevilla. Seville, 2015, p. 131, calls it "El patio de caballos".
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1903
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