About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Harlequin, 1918

Graphite on ivory wove paper
341 x 250 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.718

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.

Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, cat. 44, as Pierrot.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 146 and 192–193, cat. 141 (ill.), as Pierrot.

Publication History

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1949), p. 44. no. 128 (ill.), as Pierrot.

Ulrich Weisner. Picassos Klassizismus, exh. cat. (Bielefeld, Germany, 1988), p. 311.

The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), no. 18-028 (ill.).

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Dels Ballets al Drama (1917–1926) (Barcelona, 1999), pp. 89 and 493, no. 222 (ill.), as Pierrot.

Ownership History

Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris and New York; sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, July 3, 1979, lot 4, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.