Head of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

fall 1909

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Head 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 on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)
Inscriptions: Signed verso, lower left, in charcoal: "Picasso" (underlined)
Dimensions: 33.2 × 25.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.578
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, XXVI (Paris, 1973), p. 150, no. 413 (ill.).
William Innes Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde (New York, 1977), pp. 62, and 64, fig. 31.
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint 1907-1916 (Neuchâtel, 1979), p. 244, no. 289 (ill.).
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 13.
Alan G. Wilkinson, Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, exh. cat. (Ontario, 1981), p. 117, fig. 34.
Alan G. Wilkinson, “Picasso: Head of a Woman (Fernande),” Art Gallery of Ontario, Masterpiece Exhibition Series, 3, (1986), pp. 8 and 9, fig. 7.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Cubism (1907–1917) (Barcelona, 1990), p. 151, no. 430 (ill.).
Joan Perucho, Picasso, el Cubisme I Horta de Sant Joan (Barcelona, 1993), pp. 123 and 151, no. 86 (ill.).
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: Volume II 1907–1917 (New York, 1996), p. 141 (ill.).
Picasso: 200 Masterworks from 1898–1972 (Boston, 2002), pp. 120–121 (ill.).
Karmel Pepe, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism (New Haven, Conn., 2003), pp. 64 and 66, fig. 76.
Enrique Mallen, The Visual Grammar of Pablo Picasso (New York, 2003), p. 311.
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 09:99 (ill.).

New York, Gallery 291, “Exhibition of Early and Recent Drawings and Water-Colors by Pablo Picasso, of Paris,” March 28–April 25, 1911.
New York, Gallery 291, “Drawings and Paintings by Picasso and Braque,” December 9, 1914–January 11, 1915.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3– March 31, 1968, pp. 67, and 116, cat. 71 (ill.).
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, “Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris,” March 11–April 29, 1979, n. p., cat. 56 (ill.).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso: Retrospective,” May1–September 16, 1980, p. 132 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, p. 254, no. 13; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism,” September 20, 1989–January 16, 1990, p. 141 (ill.).
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries,” January 28–April 22, 2001, pp. 189 and 198, cat. 53 (ill.).
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, “Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier,” October 1, 2003–January 18, 2004, p. 105, cat. 63 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 48, cat. 42 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, 1911 [National Gallery of Art 2001]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

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