Minotaur and Wounded Horse

Prints and Drawings

April 17, 1935

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Minotaur and Wounded Horse
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: Pen and brush and black inks, graphite, and colored crayons, with smudging, over incising, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso" (underlined); inscribed upper right, in graphite: "Boisgeloup--17 Avril XXXV"
Dimensions: 34.3 × 51.5 cm (13 9/16 × 20 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Reference Number: 1991.673
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

View 3:4 (December 1943), p. 127 (ill.).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art (New York, 1946), p. 193.
William Rubin, Pablo Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1972), pp. 148 and 231, fig. 136.
Jürgen Thimme, Picasso und die Antike, exh. cat. (Karlsruhe, Germany, 1974), fig. 24.
Pablo Picasso in der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, exh. cat. (Stuttgart, Germany, 1981), pp. 32–33, fig. 8.
Sebastian Goeppert and Herma C. Goeppert-Frank, Die Minotauromachie von Pablo Picasso (Genf, 1987), pp. 45 and 64 (ill.).
Picasso: Toros y Toreros, exh. cat. (Paris, 1993), p. 149, fig. 2.
Juan Marin, Guernica ou Le Rapt des Ménines (Paris, 1994), pp. 106 and 208, fig. 46.
Dominique Dupuis-Labbé, Picasso et le cheval 1881–1973 (Lausanne, 2003), p. 133 (ill.).

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, “Picasso,” December 1935.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3-March 31, 1968, pp. 80 and 117, cat. 91 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, p. 255, no. 24; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983,” July 24–September 30, 1985, pp. 206–207, cat. 97 (ill.).
Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle Tübingen, “Picasso, Pastelle Zeichnungen Aquarelle,” April 5–May 25, 1986, cat. 157 (ill.); traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, June 6-July 27, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled, June 7, 1991–February 28, 1992, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 71, cat. 143 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso: Drawing from Life”, November 11, 2023 - April 8, 2024.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by December 1935. Anonymous private collector, from 1936 or 1937 [letter from collector in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

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