The Faun Musician

Prints and Drawings

June 7–11, 1947

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Faun Musician
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.: 1947
Medium: Brush and black ink and gouache on cream wove paper, folded
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper right, in brush and gray gouache: "Picasso" (underlined); inscribed right, below center, in pen and black ink: "7–11 Juin 47"
Dimensions: 32.7 × 50.2 cm (12 7/8 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.720
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pablo Picasso: Aquarelle und Gouachen (Basel: Holbein, 1956), n.p., no. 31 (ill.).
John Richardson, Pablo Picasso: Watercolours and Gouaches (London, 1964), pp. 76–77 (ill.).

Arles, France, Musée Réattu, “Picasso: Dessins—Gouaches—Aquarelles 1898–1957,” July 6– September 2, 1957, n.p., cat. 69.
Wellesley Art College Museum, “Two Women Collect,” April 2–25, 1976, no cat.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, “Pablo Picasso, Master of Line,” 1973.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, cat 43.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 83, cat. 189 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.

Saidenberg Gallery, by 1956-at least 1964 [Picasso 1956; Richardson 1964]. Indianapolis Museum [New York 1969 auct. cat.]; sold by Parke-Bernet Gallery, December 17, 1969, lot 85, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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