The Two Friends

Prints and Drawings

c. 1905

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Two Friends
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.: 1900–1910
Medium: Pen and black ink on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: “Picasso”
Dimensions: Sight: 11 × 12 cm (4 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Irwin Berman in honor of Dr. Laura Berman and family
Reference Number: 2014.1286

Maurice Raynal, Picasso: aus dem französischen Manuskript übersetzt, mit 8 Kupferdrucken und 95 Abbildungstafeln nach Radierungen, Handzeichnungen, Skulpturen und Gemälden (Delphin, 1921), pl. IX; n.pag., no. XI, as Liebespaar/Les amoureux, 1905.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 6, Supplément aux volumes 1 a 5 (Cahiers d’Art, 1954), p. 91, no. 685.

On long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam (now Stedelijk Museum), 1945–49.

Huldschinsky, Berlin (possibly Paul (1889–1947), Santa Monica, CA). Mrs. A. Furstenberg, Amsterdam (possibly Aniela (Lella) Henriette Huldschinsky (née Fürstenberg; 1891–1978)). Sold by Kurt M. Stern (c. 1895–April 1962), New York, to Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1950. Mrs. Aline B. Saarinen (née Locheim), New York, from February 1954; estate of Aline B. Saarinen to Wildenstein Gallery, New York, May 1973; sold by Wildenstein Gallery, New York, to Mrs. Linda F. Berman, New York, September 21, 1973; given by Dr. Irwin Berman to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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