About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

At the Cabaret, c. 1901

Black, orange, and blue crayons on medium thick, smooth, cream wove paper, discolored to buff
125 x 215 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in blue pencil: "Picasso"; inscribed verso, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "au Cabaret"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1933.527

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle)," October 5–November 1, 1952.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," Februry 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 56, 59, and 116, cat. 59, (ill.); as c. 1898–1900.

Chicago, R. S. Johnson-International Gallery, "Homage to Picasso," Winter 1973, pp. 5 and 57, cat. 1, (ill.).

Princeton, N.J., The Art Museum, Princeton University, "Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900," January 28–March 26, 1978, pp. 98–99, cat. 28, (ill.).

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, "Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900," April 14–June 26, 1978.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Master Drawings by Picasso," 1981, p. 253, no. 2; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.

New York, Pace Gallery, "Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Pablo Picasso," 1986, hors cat.; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 10–August 23, l987.

The Art Institute of Chicago, April 26, 1990-March 9, 1992.

Publication History

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (New York, 1946), p. 280.

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint (Neuchâtel, 1966), p. 147, no. D.IV.1 (ill.).

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXI (Paris, 1969), no. 174 (ill.), as 1900.

Howard Greenfeld, Pablo Picasso: An Introduction (Chicago, 1971), p. 47 (ill.).

Ownership History

Annie Swan Coburn (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1932 [estate inventory, 1932]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.