Peasant Woman with a Shawl

Prints and Drawings

summer 1906

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Peasant Woman with a Shawl
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.: 1906
Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated verso, lower right, in charcoal: "Picasso / 1906"
Dimensions: 63 × 42.4 cm (24 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer
Reference Number: 1986.1595
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Tyrell, N.Y. Evening World, reprinted in Camera Work 36 (October 1911), p. 49.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXII (Paris, 1970), p. 139, no. 386 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), p. 131 (ill.).
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Vivent (1881–1907) (Barcelona, 1980), pp. 443 and 549, fig. 1228, as Vella gosolana encaputxada.
Charles Brock, “Picasso,” in Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, exh. cat. (Washington DC, 2001), pp. 118 and 119, fig. 42.

New York, Gallery 291, “Exhibition of Early and Recent Drawings and Water-Colors by Pablo Picasso of Paris,” March 28–April 25, 1911.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Treasures of Chicago Collectors,” April 15–May 7, 1961, n.p.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–Mach. 31, 1968, pp. 62 and 116, cat. 65 (ill.).
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, p. 253, no. 9; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, “Picasso, 1905–1906,” February 5–April 19, 1992, p. 349, cat. 181 (ill.); traveled to the Kunstmuseum, Berne, May 8–June 26, 1992.
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “Picasso: The Early Years, 1892–1906,” March 30–July 27, 1997, p. 326, cat. 158 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 40, cat. 24 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.

Dikran C. Kelekian (1868–1951), New York. Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; died 1956), Chicago, by 1948 [1948 inventory in curatorial files]; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914–1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917–1984), Sarasota, Fla.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.

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