The Glass

Modern Art

1911/12

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Glass
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.: 1911–1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 33 × 17.6 cm (13 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Claire B. Zeisler in memory of A. James Speyer
Reference Number: 1986.1410
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Gazette de l’Hôtel Druout (November 22, 1921), p. 25, no. 173.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso 2:II (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1942), p. 320, no. 731 (ill.), as Verre.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), pp. 24 and 113, cat. 19 (ill.).
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint 1907-1916 (Neuchâtel: Ides et Calendes, 1979), p. 273, no. 439 (ill.), as Wineglass.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1986–7 (Chicago, 1987), p. 1, pl. 1.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Cubism (1907–1917), trans. by Susan Branyas, Richard-Lewis Rees, and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1990), pp. 213 and 505, no. 586 (ill.).
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Picasso & Things, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992), pp. 92–93, cat. 24 (ill.).
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 11:85 (ill.), as Verre.
Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p., cat. 24 (ill.).

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 24 and 113, cat. 19 (ill.), as Glass.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Picasso & Things, February 26–May 3, 1992, pp. 92–93, cat. 24 (ill.), as Wine Glass; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 7–August 23, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale, Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 5–Aug. 24, 2003, cat. 24.
Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, The Metropol Drama, Feb. 23–July 9, 2023, no cat. no.

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, probably acquired directly from the artist [Archive photograph 260 cited in Daix 1979]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 17–18, 1921, 2nd Kahnweiler sequestration sale, lot 173, to Rolf de Maré (1888–1964), Hildesborg, Sweden and Paris [Daix 1979]. Claire B. Zeisler (1903–1991), Chicago by 1968 [Chicago 1968]; given to the Art Institute, 1986.

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