Fragment of "Mother and Child"

Modern Art

1921

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Fragment of "Mother and Child"
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.: 1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: not signed
Dimensions: 143.4 × 44.3 cm (56 7/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Pablo Picasso
Reference Number: 1968.100
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 63, no. 3D5.
William Rubin, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1996), pp. 317, 320, and 334 (ill.).
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 51 (ill.).
Andrea Kirsch and Rustin S. Levenson, Seeing Through Paintings: physical examination in art historical studies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 54-55 (fig. 59).
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 21:13 (ill.).
Émilia Philippot, Joachim Pissarro, and Bernard Ruiz–Picasso, Olga Picasso, exh. cat. (Musée Picasso, 2017), pp. 150, cat. 164 (color ill.); 151; 300.

Paris, Musée Picasso, Olga Picasso, Mar. 21–Sept. 3, 2017, cat. 164.

The artist; given to the Art Institute, 1968.

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