This drawing presents six studies for Picasso’s monumental sculpture in Richard J. Daley Plaza in Chicago, unveiled in 1967. Although Picasso claimed the sculpture was inspired by his dog, an Afghan hound, others have suggested it is reminiscent of his model Sylvette David (born 1934).
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Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XX (Paris, 1968), p. 110, no. 237 (ill.).
Howard Greenfeld, Pablo Picasso: An Introduction (Chicago, 1971), p. 176 (ill.).
Mary Matthews Gedo, Picasso: Art as Autobiography (Chicago, 1980), p. 241 (ill.).
Patricia Balton Stratton, “Chicago Picasso,” MA thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1982, pp. 85-86, fig. 38.
Werner Spies, Picasso: Das Plastiche Werk, exh. cat. (Stuttgart, 1983), p. 312 (ill.).
William Rubin, et. al., Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, exh. cat. (New York, 1996), p. 474 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, The Sixties I 1960–1963 (San Francisco, 2002), p. 231, no. 62–061 (ill.), as Study for Bust of a Woman (Jacqueline).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 89 and 117, cat. 101 (ill.).
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, p. 255, no. 26; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 94, cat. 228 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso: Drawing from Life”, November 11, 2023 - April 8, 2024.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris [label on mat]. Sold by the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1967.
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