About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Head of a Woman, 1909

Watercolor and gouache on cream laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper
316 x 234 mm (sheet); 363 x 278 mm (mount)
Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Picasso / 09"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Friedman, 1964.215

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, "The Collection of Earl Horter," February 17–March 13, 1934, no. cat.

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Earl Horter of Philadelphia," April 3-26, 1934, n.p., cat. 47, as Watercolor Negro Period.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 67 and 116, cat. 72 (ill.).

Kunsthalle Bielefeld, "Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus-Picasso-Braque-Gris," March 11–April 29, 1979, p. 267, cat. 54 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958-1983," July–Septemper 1985, pp. 202–203, cat. 94 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection," March 7, 1999–May 16, 1999, p. 90, cat. 33 (ill.).

Publication History

Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 60:1 (January 1966), n. p. (ill.).

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXVI, (Paris, 1973), p. 143, no. 400 (ill.).

Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue Raisonné de L'Oeuvre Peint 1907-1916, (Neuchâtel, 1979), p. 251, no. 327 (ill.), as Head and Shoulders of a Woman.

Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 15, as Head and Shoulders of a Woman

Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 09:141 (ill.).

Ownership History

Earl Horter (1880-1940), Philadelphia, by 1929 or 1930 [Philadelphia 1999]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Friedman, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1964.