About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Dancer, 1919

Graphite on cream laid paper, discolored to tan
311 x 237 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Picasso" (underlined)
Bequest of Mrs. Richard Q. Livingston, 1993.291

© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1949), no. 345 (ill.).

Douglas Cooper, Picasso, théâtre (Paris, 1967), pp. 41 and 68, fig. 149.

André Fermigier, Picasso, (Paris, 1969), p. 143, fig. 90.

Felix Andreas Baumann, Pablo Picasso: Leben und Werk (Stuttgart, 1976), p. 94, fig. 163.

The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-973, From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), p. 235, no. 19–212.

Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 19:05 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bequeathed by Mrs. Richard Q. Livingston, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1993.