Editing Eurovision Wiki:Media copyright questions (section)

== [[:File:Family of Saltimbanques.JPG|File:Family of Saltimbanques.JPG]] ==

I hate to open up what could be a large can of worms, but I'm wondering if we need evidence of pre-1931 publication outside the US for this painting by Picasso, owned by the National Gallery in Washington. It reminds me somewhat of the [[File talk:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.jpg|very old discussions]] surrounding the publication status of Picasso's ''[[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon]]''.

''Family of Saltimbanques'' was first sold directly from the artist to a private collection in Paris in 1908, before trading hands and appearing in several galleries in Europe - I really have no clue how we'd know if those galleries allowed the public to copy the works they were displaying, thus constituting publication of the painting. This info comes from the provenance listed under "artwork history" on the National Gallery's [https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46665-family-saltimbanques collection page] for this work. The bibliography also lists a 1932 publication as the first recorded reproduction of the work in print. Artists Rights Society claims the work is copyrighted (with a copyright date of 2012 for some reason), which is why this caught my eye, but obviously they are not the most reliable narrators in situations like this.

Courtesy tagging @[[User:APK|APK]] as the uploader (apologies if you already did the digging on publication status here). [[User:19h00s|19h00s]] ([[User talk:19h00s|talk]]) 21:51, 18 March 2026 (UTC)