Seated Woman (recto); Study (verso)

Prints and Drawings

November 28, 1941 (recto); 1941 (verso)

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Seated Woman (recto); Study (verso)
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.: 1941
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, and gouache, with touches of wiping (recto), and brush and gray wash, with touches of white-gray gouache and red wash (verso), on off-white white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Picasso" (underlined); inscribed upper right, in brush and brown wash: "28.11.41"
Dimensions: 40.8 × 30 cm (16 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.636
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XI (Paris, 1960), p. 146, no. 363 (ill.) (recto).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, exh.cat. (Chicago, 1968), p. 82, cat. 94 (ill.) (recto).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh.cat. (Chicago, 1969), cat. 125 (ill.) (recto).
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh.cat. (Chicago, 1985), pp. 97 and 112, cat. 136 (ill.) (recto).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Nazi Occupation 1940–1944 (San Francisco, 1999), p. 97, no. 41–277 (ill.) (recto).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 82 and 117, cat. 94 (ill.), as Seated Woman (recto).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, cat. 125 (ill.) (recto).
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 (recto).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23–April 14, 1985, cat. 136 (ill.), as Seated Woman (recto).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, hors cat (recto and verso).

Sold by Saidenberg Gallery, New York, to Mr. Joseph Randall Shapiro, October 5, 1965 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.

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