About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Head of a Boy, August 13-15, 1944

Brush and black ink and gray wash, with scraping on ivory wove paper
500 x 288 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Picasso, 13-15 Août 44 Paris"
Bequest of Florene May Schoenborn, RX21708/9

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, "Watercolors and Drawings by Picasso," October 8–November 3, 1951.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition," May 22–September 8, 1957, p. 90 (ill.); also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29–December 8, 1957.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Picasso: A Loan Exhibition of his Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, and Illustrated Books," January 8–February 23, 1958, cat. 217 (ill.).

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Museum Boymans, "Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collectives," July 31–September 28, 1958, pp. 143–144 and 205, cat. 222.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings from American Collections, Clouet to Matisse," February 3–March 15, 1959, pp. 142–143 and 205, cat. 222 (ill.).

Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "De Clout a Matisse: Dessins Français des Collection Américaines," 1958–1959, cat. 222, pl. 221.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," 1965, p. 27 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 11–March 27, 1966, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, April 26–June 13, 1966, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, July 2–August 7, 1966, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, September 2–October 2, 1966.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 58, 83, and 117, cat. 95 (ill.).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, long-term loan, 1990–1997.

Publication History

Elizabeth McCausland, Picasso (New York, 1944), (detail ill.).

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso 14 (Paris, 1963), p. 20, no. 31 (ill).

William Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (Greenwich, Conn., 1972), pp. 164 and 236 (ill.).

The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944 (San Francisco, 1999), p. 377, no. 44-153 (ill.).

Ownership History

Samuel Marx (1885–1964) and Florene May Schoenborn (1903–1995), New York and Chicago, from 1951 [according to New York 1965]; bequeathed by Florene M. Schoenborn to the Art Institute, 1997.