Bust of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

late 1909

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Bust of a Woman
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.: 1909
Medium: Watercolor and gouache on cream laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Picasso (underlined)/ 09"
Dimensions: Primary support: 31.6 × 23.4 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 36.3 × 27.8 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Friedman
Reference Number: 1964.215
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 60:1 (January 1966), n. p. (ill.).
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXVI, (Paris, 1973), p. 143, no. 400 (ill.).
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue Raisonné de L’Oeuvre Peint 1907-1916, (Neuchâtel, 1979), p. 251, no. 327 (ill.), as Head and Shoulders of a Woman.
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 15, as Head and Shoulders of a Woman
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 09:141 (ill.).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, “The Collection of Earl Horter,” February 17–March 13, 1934, no. cat.
Chicago, The Arts Club, “Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Earl Horter of Philadelphia,” April 3-26, 1934, n.p., cat. 47, as Watercolor Negro Period.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 67 and 116, cat. 72 (ill.).
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, “Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus-Picasso-Braque-Gris,” March 11–April 29, 1979, p. 267, cat. 54 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958-1983,” July–Septemper 1985, pp. 202–203, cat. 94 (ill.).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection,” March 7, 1999–May 16, 1999, p. 90, cat. 33 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 47, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.

Earl Horter (1880-1940), Philadelphia, by 1929 or 1930 [Philadelphia 1999]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Friedman, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1964.

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