Figure

1935

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

Status: On View, Gallery 396
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Figure
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1935
Medium: Wood, metal, plastic, nails, screws, paint, twine, paper, and concrete
Dimensions: 63.5 × 18 × 13.7 cm (24 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Mary L. and Leigh B. Block, and Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and the Walter E. Heller Foundation endowments; through prior gifts of Mary L. and Leigh B. Block
Reference Number: 1988.428
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Petit Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Paris: Petit Palais, 1966), cat. 263 (ill.).
Art Council of Great Britain, Picasso: Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Work, exh. cat. (London: Art Council of Great Britain, 1967), p. 50, cat. 61 (ill.).
Roland Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967), pp. 26, 92, and 222, cat. 62 (ill.).
Werner Spies, The Sculpture of Picasso, trans. by J. Maxwell Brownjohn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971), p. 150 and 304, no. 163 (ill.).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Pablo Picasso: Sammlung Marina Picasso, exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1981), p. 343, cat. 181 (ill.).
Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso: Opera dal 1895–1971 dalla collezione Marina Picasso, exh. cat. (Venice: Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, 1981), p. 315, cat. 204 (ill.).

Paris, Petit Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, November 1966–February 1967, cat. 263 (ill.).
London, Art Council of Great Britain, Picasso: Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Work, June 9–August 13, 1967, pp. 11, 50, cat. 61 (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Sculpture of Picasso, October 11, 1967–January 1, 1968, pp. 26, 92, and 222, cat. 62 (ill.).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Pablo Picasso: Sammlung Marina Picasso, February 14–April 20, 1981, p. 343, cat. 181 (ill.); traveled to Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle and Museum Ludwig, August 11–October 11, and Frankfurt, Stadtische Galerie, October 22, 1981–January 10, 1982.
Venice, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso: Opera dal 1895–1971 dalla collezione Marina Picasso, May 3–July 26, 1981, p. 315, cat. 204 (ill.).
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in U.S.A and U.S.S.R., April 2–May 29, 1983, p. 283, cat. 143 (ill.); traveled to the Kyoto Municipal Museum, June 10–July 24, 1983.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Picasso—Das Plastichen Werk, October 7–November 27, 1983, pp. 179, 186, 337, and 380, cat. 163 (ill.); traveled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, December 11, 1983–January 29, 1984.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Wolper Picassos, October 11, 1984–January 6, 1985, cat. 1A.

Estate of the artist; Marina Picasso, to at least July 1983 [Tokyo 1983]. David L. Wolper (born 1928), Los Angeles, by October 1984 [Los Angeles 1984]. Pace Gallery, New York [this and the following according to Richard Gray cataloging worksheet, n.d.; copy in curatorial file]. Private Collection, New York. Sold through the Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1988.

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