Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Crazy Woman with Cats, 1901
Oil on pulp board
17 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (45.1 x 40.8 cm)
Signed. l.r.: "Picasso"
Amy McCormick Memorial Collection, 1942.464
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Galeries Vollard, Exhibition of Paintings by F. Iturrino and P. R. Picasso, June 25–July 14, 1901, p. 10, cat. 17.
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Watercolors by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Braque, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Laurencin, Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Redon, and Others, October 12–November 9, 1929, cat. 3, as Woman and Cats.
Providence, R. I., Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, March 11–31, 1930, cat. 28, as Woman with Cats.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, July 25–October 9, 1935, cat. 32, no cat.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938, cat. 108, as Woman Playing with Cats.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, Spanish Painting, January 11–February 6, 1952, cat. 35, as Woman with Cats.
Denver Art Museum, Ten Directions by Ten Artists, January 7–February 14, 1954, cat. 60, as Woman with Cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, September–December 1955, no cat..
Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Renoir to Picasso 1914, February 8–March 10, 1963, pp. 20 and 58, cat. 90 (ill.), as Woman with Cats.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Picasso and Man, January 10–February 16, 1964, p. 29, cat. 8, (ill.), as Nude Woman with Cats; traveled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, February 27–March 31, 1964.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 11 and 112, cat. 2 (ill.), as Nude with Cats.The Art Institute of Chicago, From Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, February 17–May 13, 2007; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Publication History
Galeries Vollard, Exhibition of Paintings by F. Iturrino and P. R. Picasso, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Vollard, 1901), p. 10, cat. 17.
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Watercolors by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Braque, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Laurencin, Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Redon, and Others, exh. cat. (New York: Reinhardt Galleries, 1929), cat. 3, as Woman and Cats.“Reinhardt Galleries Show Paintings Recently Brought from Europe,” Art News 28:3 (Oct. 19, 1929), pp. 4 and 5 (ill.), as Woman and Cats.
Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, exh. cat. (Providence, R. I.: Rhode Island School of Design, 1930), cat. 28, as Woman with Cat.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso I (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1932), p. 46, no. 93 (ill.), as Nude with Cats,
The Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1938), cat. 108, as Woman Playing with Cats.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), p. 280, as Woman with Cats.
Joan Merli, Picasso (Buenos Aires: Editorial Poseidon, 1948), n.p., fig. 55, as Desnudo y gatos.Society of the Four Arts, Spanish Painting, exh. cat. (Palm Beach, Fla.: Society of the Four Arts, 1952), cat. 35, as Woman with Cats.
Denver Art Museum, Ten Directions by Ten Artists, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1954), cat. 60, as Woman with Cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 356, as Woman with Cats.
University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Renoir to Picasso 1914, exh. cat. (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, 1963), pp. 20 and 58, cat. 90 (ill.), as Woman with Cats.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Picasso and Man, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1964), p. 29, cat. 8, (ill.), s Nude Woman with Cats.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint (Neuchâtel: Editions Ides et Calendes, 1966), pp. 44, 154, 156, and 166, no. V.16 (ill.), as Nude with Cats.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), pp. 11 and 112, cat. 2 (ill.), as Nude with Cats.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 62, pl. 3C9, as Woman with Cats.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Vivent (1881–1907) (Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1980), pp. 239, 249 and 534, fig. 612, as Madwoman with Cats.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso: 1900–1906 Catalogue raisonné de l’Œuvre peint. (Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1988), p. 326 (ill.), no. V.16, as Nu aux chats.
Ownership History
Galeries Vollard, Paris, 1901 acquired from the artist [Paris 1901]; sold to Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris [Zervos 1932; Daix and Boudaille 1967]. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, by 1929 [New York 1929]. Colonel Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), Chicago, by 1935 [Chicago 1935]; given to the Art Institute, 1942.