Young Girl Washing Herself

Prints and Drawings

c. 1905

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Young Girl Washing Herself
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.: 1900–1910
Medium: Pen and brown ink on tan wove paper laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Signed verso, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso"
Dimensions: Sheet: 39.3 × 28.3 cm (15 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.); Mount: 40.1 × 29.2 cm (15 13/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.141.32
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Neuchâtel, 1966), p. 312, no. D.XV.15 (ill.), as Femme à sa Toilette.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso 22 (Paris, 1970), p. 59, no. 169 (ill.), as Nu à sa Toilette.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Vivent (1881–1907) (Barcelona, 1980), pp. 4512 and 550, fig. 1257, as Dona rentant-se les mans.

Geneva, Musée de l’Athénée, “Picasso,” July 11–September 21, 1963, n.p., cat. 11 (ill.).
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block,” May 4–June 11, 1967, n.p., fig. 91; traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 21–November 2, 1967.

Berggruen, Paris [Daix and Boudaille 1966]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1967 [Washington DC 1967]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.

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