Still Life

February 4, 1922

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

Status: On View, Gallery 394
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Still Life
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.: 1922
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Dated, u.l.: "4-2-22-"
Dimensions: 81.6 × 100.3 cm (32 1/8 × 39 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
Reference Number: 1953.28
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

M. Knoedler Galleries, To Honor Henry McBride: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Water Colours, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler Galleries, 1949), cat. 8 (ill.).
Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1951), p. 40, cat. 32.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 357.
A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo LXXXIV (Sept. 1966), p. 225.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 30, cat. 26 (ill.).
Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970), pl. 57, p. 173.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXX (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1975), p. 97, no. 286 (ill.), as Guitare, Bouteille et Verre.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 3D6, p. 63.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Picasso and Things, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992), p. 196 (ill.), as Guitar, Bottle, and Glass.
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Neoclassicism II 1922–1924 (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1996), p. 4, no. 22–011 (ill.), as Guitar, Bottle, and Glass.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Dels Ballets al Drama (1917–1926) (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1999), pp. 316 and 513, no. 1166 (ill.), as Guitarra I altres fòtils sobre una taula.
Laurence Madeline (editor), Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso: Correspondance (Paris: Gallimard, 2005), pp. 271–273, fig. 42, as Nature Morte calligraphique, 1922.
Michael Fitzgerald and Julia May Boddewyn, Picasso and American Art, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006), p. 366.
Paula Luengo, Marika Genty, Juan Gutiérrez, Birgit Haase, Maria Spitz, Dominique Marny, Lynn Garafola. Picasso Channel, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Thyssen–Borne, 2022), 96, cat. 44 (color ill.).

New York, M. Knoedler Galleries, To Honor Henry McBride: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Water Colours, November 29–December 17, 1949, cat. 8 (ill.).
New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists, February 11–March 11, 1951, p. 40, cat. 32; traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21–April 21, 1951.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 30 and 114, cat. 26 (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, pl. 57, p. 173, as Calligraphic Still Life.
Bergen, Kunstmuseum, Picasso: Figure and Image, February 1–June 1, 2008.
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 3, 2011–January 16, 2012; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 21–June 3, 2012 (New York only).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 6, 2013–February 16, 2014, no cat. no.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen–Bornemisza, Picasso Channel, Oct. 11, 2022–Jan. 15, 2023, cat. 44.

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) [this and the following, according to letter from Richard Finnegan of M. Knoedler and Company of September 26, 1975 in curatorial file]; Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967); sold to M. Knoedler and Company, New York, July 1949; sold to the Art Institute, 1953.

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