Double Flute Player and Reclining Nude

Prints and Drawings

October 22, 1932

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Double Flute Player and Reclining Nude
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.: 1932
Medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash and scraping, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso" (underlined); inscribed lower right, in pen and black ink: "Paris 22 octobre XXXII"
Dimensions: 25.9 × 33 cm (10 1/4 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1992.260
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, VIII (Paris, 1957), p. 21, no. 45 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Surrealism 1930–1936 (San Francisco, 1997), p. 143, no. 32–52 (ill.).

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, “Picasso,” November–December 1956, pp. 37 and 58, cat. 76 (ill.), as Deux Femmes.
Paris, Galerie Berggruen, “Picasso Drawings,” 1957.
New York, Charles Slatkin Galleries, “The Many Sided Artist,” February 15–March 31, 1961, cat. 76 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 81 and 117, cat. 89 (ill.).
Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, “Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, cat. 124.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, hors cat.; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23–April 14, 1985, pp. 96 and 112, cat. 135 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro,” December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993, p. 14, fig. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, hors cat.

Galerie Berggruen, Paris, by November 1956 [Oslo 1956]. Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, by 1961 [New York 1961]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by 1968 [Chicago 1968]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.

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