Seated Female Nude

Prints and Drawings

summer 1909

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Seated Female Nude
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 and gouache, over graphite, on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Picasso" (underlined); lower right, in graphite: "Picasso" (underlined).
Dimensions: 64 × 49 cm (25 1/4 × 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx
Reference Number: 1953.192
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso II (Paris, 1942), p. 76, no. 154 (ill.).
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 358.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 167–68 (ill.), as Figure.
Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1971), p. 358.
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’opera completa di Picassso Cubista (Milan, 1972), no. 255 (ill.), as Donna Seduta con Gambe Accavallate.
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint 1907-1916 (Neuchâtel, 1979), p. 234, no. 234.
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 11.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute’s Picassos,” September–December 1955, no cat.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoeborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection,” November 1, 1965–January 2, 1966, p. 20 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 11–March 27, 1966, the City Art Museum of Saint Louis, April 27–June 13, 1966, the San Francisco Museum of Art, July 2–August 7, 1966, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, August 30–October 2, 1966, and the Denver Art Museum, October 25–November 26, 1966.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 19 and 113, cat. 11 (ill.).
New York, Pace Gallery, “Je suis le cahier: The Sketchbooks of Pablo Picasso,” 1986, hors cat.; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 10–August 23, l987.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 51, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso: Drawing from Life”, November 11, 2023 - April 8, 2024.

Galerie Pierre, Paris [Zervos 1942]. Florene May Schoenborn (1903–1995) and Samuel Marx (1885–1964), Chicago, from 1944 [according to New York 1965–66]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.

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