About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, worked in France, 1881–1973

Head of a Woman, summer 1909

Oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 20 3/16 in. (60.6 x 51.3 cm)
none
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1940.5

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Demotte Inc., Pablo R. Picasso, December 1931, cat. 16, as Portrait de femme.

London, The Zwemmer Gallery, Chirico, Picasso, June 1937, cat. 21, as La Femme au Miroir.

Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, April 2–30, 1940, cat. 70, as Portrait of a Woman.

Decatur, Ill., Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art, March 4–25, 1945, cat. 13, as Women with Pears; traveled to Springfield, Ill., Springfield Art Association, April 4–30, 1945.

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, pp. 34–35 (ill.).

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 8–November 5, 1949, no cat..

Laurel, Mississippi, Lauren Rogers Library and Museum of Art, Laurel Art Season, 2nd Half January–April 1951.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, September–December 1955, no cat.

Chicago, Joseph Faulkner Main Street Galleries, Cubism 1907-1930, October 13–November 9, 1959, cat. 9.

Toledo Museum of Art, What is Modern Art?, March 6–27, 1960, cat. 12, as Woman with a Mirror.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 19 and 113, cat. 12 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collection of Gertrude Stein and her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 171 (ill.), as Woman with a Mirror.T

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in USA and USSR, April 2–May 29, 1983, pp. 66 (ill.), 201, cat. 49; traveled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum, June 10–July 24, 1983.

London, Tate Gallery, Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, February 16–May 8, 1994, pp. 54 (ill.), 257, cat. 16, as Head and Shoulders of a Woman (Fernande).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier, October 1, 2003–January 18, 2004, cat. 28, pp. 72 (ill.) 97, fig. 54 (ill. in studio photo) and 101, fig. 58 (ill. in studio photo); traveled to the Nasher Sculpture Center. Dallas, February 15–May 9, 2004.

Bergen, Kunstmuseum, Picasso: Figure and Image, 2008, ill. 11.

Ownership History

Leo (1872–1947) and Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), Paris, acquired directly from the artist, 1909 [Daix and Rosselet 1979; Richardson 1996]; Gertrude Stein, Paris by 1914/1915 [1914/1915 photograph of Gertrude Stein’s studio, original in Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Archives]; sold to Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich von Reber (1880–1959), Lausanne, by 1926–at least 1932 [Einstein 1926 and Kosinski 1991; Zervos 1932]. René Gaffé (1887–1968), Brussels, by 1937 [Daix and Rosselet 1979]. Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York, by 1940; sold to the Art Institute, 1940 [receipt in curatorial file].