Young Woman with a Hat

1900

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

The subject of this portrait is likely Germaine Gargallo (1880–1948). When she refused the marriage proposal of Picasso’s friend and roommate, Carles Casagemas (1880–1901), tragedy followed. In a drunken rage, Casagemas shot Gargallo in the head (grazing her temple), and then turned the gun on himself. His death and Picasso’s resulting grief led, in part, to the artist’s Blue Period, which explored themes of despair and isolation.

Status: On View, Gallery 125
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Young Woman with a Hat
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.: 1900
Medium: Pastel, with stumping and incising, over touches of charcoal, on gray millboard, laid down on tan cardboard, fixed
Dimensions: 36.5 × 27 cm (14 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.319
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 355.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Neuchâtel, 1966), p. 125, no. II.22 (ill.), as Young Woman with a Hat.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XXI (Paris, 1969), p. 51, no. 131 (ill.), as Jeune Femme au Chapeau.

Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, “Joseph Winterbotham’s Collection,” December 9–31, 1936, cat. 30, as Prisoner.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 10 and 112, cat. 1 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, p. 253, no. 1, as Young Woman with a Hat; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981.
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, hors cat.

Joseph Winterbotham (1878–1954), Chicago, by 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

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