Jester

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Modern Art

1905

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Jester
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.: 1905
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed, center rear: "Picasso"
Dimensions: 41.9 × 37.5 × 19.7 cm (16 1/2 × 14 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate L. Brewster Collection
Reference Number: 1964.193
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Possibly Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 1, Œuvres de 1895 a 1906 (Cahiers d’Art, 1932), pl. 148, no. 322 (ill.); n.pag., no. 322, as Tête de “fou,” Paris, 1905.
Possibly Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso: Das plastiche Werk (Gerd Hatje, 1971), pp. 17–18; 34–35, pl. 4; 104; 265, n. 18; 301, cat. 4; 318, as Le Fou · Der Narr, Paris, 1905.
Possibly Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso vivent (1881–1907) (Ediciones Polígrafa, 1980), pp. 407, fig. 1061; 545, cat. 1061, as Cap de bufó, Paris, 1905.
Christie’s, New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part I, sale cat. (Christie’s, May 15, 1990), p. 110, as Tête de fou.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Selected Artists: Pablo Picasso’s Jester,” Cézanne’s Harlequin, 2011, http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Harlequin/Picasso-Jester (accessed Feb. 2013), no cat. no. (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Selected Works,” Cézanne’s Harlequin, 2011, http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Harlequin/artwork (accessed Feb. 2013), no cat. no. (ill.).
Enrique Mallen, ed., The On-Line Picasso Project, Sam Houston State University, n.d., https://picasso.shsu.edu/index.php?view=ArtworkInfo&OPPID=OPP.05:223 (accessed Feb. 2013), cat. 05:223 (ill.), as Le fou [Tête d’arlequin], Paris, [Spring]/1905.
Stephanie D’Alessandro, Picasso and Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Works (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2013), pp. 24; 29; 36, pl. 7; 103, cat. 20, as Jester, spring 1905.
Carmen Giménez, ed., with essays by Carmen Giménez, Diana Widmaier-Ruiz Picasso, and Pepe Karmel, Picasso Sculptor: Matter and Body, exh. cat. (Madrid: La Fábrica, 2023), 9.

Chicago, Art Institute, Cézanne’s Harlequin, Feb. 26–May 30, 2011, no cat. no. (ill.).
Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso and Chicago, Feb. 20–May 12, 2013, cat. 20 (ill.), as Jester, spring 1905.

Probably Ambroise Vollard, Paris, c. 1905 [letter from Douglas Cooper to Sally Fairweather, Apr. 30, 1964; copy in curatorial file]. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, by Dec. 1959 [this and the following, notes from a phone conversation between Courtney Donnell and Melissa Mederos of Knoedler Gallery library, Sept. 3, 1986; copy in curatorial file]; sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, Dec. 1959; sold to Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1961; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.

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