About This Artwork

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Fernande Olivier, 1906

Charcoal, with stumping on cream laid paper
610 x 458 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso"
Gift of Hermann Waldeck, 1951.210

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "20th Century Portraits," December 9, 1942–January 24, 1943, p. 48 (ill.).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17–November 30, 1963, cat. 154, pl. XLIX.

Kassel, Alte Galerie, Musuem Fridericianum, "Documenta III, Handzeichnungen," June 27-October 5, 1964, vol 3, part 2 cat. 12, p. 186.

St Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists and Draughtsmen," March 13–April 8, 1966, no cat.

Fort Worth, Tex., Fort Worth Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "Picasso," February 8–March 26, 1967, p. 101, cat. 17.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 61, 56, and 116, cat. 63 (ill.).

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings and Prints from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 4–27, 1974, cat. 37.

Frankfort-am-Main, Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstiutut, "Franzöische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10–April 10, 1977, pp. 176–177, cat. 85 (ill.).

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Master Drawings by Picasso," Februarry 20–April 5, 1981, pp. 68–69, cat 19 (ill); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 11–August 23, 1981.

Tübingen Germany, Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle," April 5–May 25, 1986, n.p., cat. 36 (ill.); traveled to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, June 6–July 27, 1986.

Barcelona, Picasso Museum, "Picasso 1905-1906, From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol," February 5–April 19, 1992, pp. 296–297, cat. 132 (ill.); traveled to the Kunstmuseum, Berne, May 8–June 26, 1992.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation," April 28–September 17, 1996, p. 259 (ill.); traveled to the Grand Palais, Paris, October 1996–January 1997.

Washington DC, The National Gallery of Art, "Picasso's Drawings 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition", February 5 - May 6, 2012, pp 12-13, and 122-125, cat 21 (ill), cat. by Susan Grace Galassi, Marilyn McCully et. al.

Publication History

Maurice Raynal, Picasso (Munich, 1921), p. XI, as Tête de Femme.

Pablo Picasso (The World’s Master’s) (London, 1930), pl. III, as Head of a Woman.

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 46:4 (November 15, 1952), p. 75 (ill.).

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, VI (Paris, 1954) no. 747 (ill.).

Alfred Frankfurter, "Il bon disegno from Chicago," Art News 62: 7 (November 1963) p. 29, fig. 6 (ill.).

Ileana Soldea, Picasso (Bucharest, 1972), p. 60, fig. 15.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 165 (ill.).

Edward Burns, Gertrude Stein on Picasso (New York, 1970), p. 60 (ill.).

Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité (Geneva, 1971), p. 211 (ill.).

Alan G. Wilkinson, “Picasso: Head of a Woman (Fernande),” Art Gallery of Ontario, Masterpiece Exhibition Series 3 (1986), p. 5, fig. 4.

Picasso: The Ludwig Collection, exh. cat. (Munich, 1992), p. 56 (ill.).

John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: Volume II 1907–1917 (New York, 1996), p. 233 (ill.).

Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project ((http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 06:52 (ill.).

Ownership History

Oscar Huldschinsky (1846-1931), Berlin [according to Cambridge, Mass. 1981]. Mrs. A. Fürstenberg, Amsterdam [according to Cambridge, Mass. 1981]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York to the Art Institute, 1951.