Object Information

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Jester, 1905

Bronze
16 1/2 x 14 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (41.9 x 37.5 x 19.7 cm)
Signed, center rear: "Picasso"
Kate L. Brewster Collection, 1964.193

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso I (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1932), p. 148, no. 322 (ill.), as Head of Fool.

Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso: Das plastiche Werk (Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1971), pp. 17, 35, and 301, no. 4 (ill.), as Le Fou.

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Vivent (1881–1907) (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1980), pp. 407 and 545, no. 1061 (ill.), as Jester’s Head.

Ownership History

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1959; sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, December 1959; sold to Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1961; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.