Flowers in a Vase

Prints and Drawings

1935

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973

This drawing was made during the year Picasso stopped painting to focus instead on printmaking and drawing. He would later cite this year as the “worst time of his life,” as he was embroiled in a personal crisis: his mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, was pregnant, and his wife, Olga, was leaving him. The dark line work surrounding this bouquet might be reflective of the stress the artist was experiencing at the time.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Flowers in a Vase
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.: Made 1935
Medium: Pen and brown-black ink on buff wove ledger paper
Dimensions: Sheet, folded: 20.8 × 13.5 cm (8 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 20.8 × 27 cm (8 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1003
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso VIII (Paris, 1957), p. 126, cat. 271 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, Surrealism 1930–1936 (San Francisco, 1997), cat. 35-031 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

The artist to Dora Maar (1907–1997) [stamp (DM /1998 [encircled]; not in Lugt) recto, lower left, in black]; sold, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, Oct. 27–28, 1998, lot 36, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Zervos 271

Picasso Project 35-031

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