About This Artwork
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Chicago Civic Center Monument1967
White chalk on plywood
1,000 x 810 mm
Signed recto, upper right, in magenta pastel: "Picasso" (underlined)
Gift of Pablo Picasso, 1967.538
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, p. 117, cat. 102 (ill.).
Publication History
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 255, no. 27.
Patricia Balton Stratton, “Chicago Picasso,” MA thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1982, pp. 83–85, figs. 36 and 37.
Ownership History
Given by Pablo Picasso to the Art Institute, 1967.