Woman Washing Her Feet

May 6, 1944

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: On View, Gallery 126
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Woman Washing Her Feet
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.: Made 1944
Medium: Graphite, with rubbing, erasing, and scraping, over incised lines, on cream wove paper, pieced
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper left, in red pencil: "Picasso" (underlined); inscribed upper left, in black ink: "6 Mai 44"
Dimensions: 50.7 × 38.6 cm (20 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift from the estate of Curt Valentin
Reference Number: 1955.603
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso XIII (Paris, 1944), no. 291 (ill.).
Wilhelm Boeck, and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso, (New York, 1955), pp. 306 and 312, no. 391 (ill.).
Frank Elgar and Robert Maillard, Picasso, (Paris, 1955), p. 221 (ill.).
Maurice Jardot, Pablo Picasso Drawings (New York, 1959), no. 115 (ill.).
Alfred Frankfurter, “‘Il bon disegno’ from Chicago,” Art News, 62:7 (November, 1963), p. 30 (ill.).
Jean Leymarie, Picasso Drawings, trans. by Stuart Gilbert (Geneva, 1967), pp. 78–79 (ill.).
André Fermigier, Picasso (Le Livre de Poche) (Paris, 1969), pp. 306 and 309, fig. 207.
Jean Leymarie, Picasso Métamorphoses et unité (Geneva, 1971), p. 70 (ill.).
Drawing 4:2 (July-August 1982), p. 41 (ill.).
Late Picasso: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints 1953–1972, exh. cat. (London, 1988), p. 71, fig. 57.
Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 II (Cologne, 1992), p. 458 (ill.).
Ludwig Ullmann, Picasso und der Krieg (Bielefeld, Germany, 1993), p. 306, fig. 272.
Pepe Karmel, “Picasso Shows Why He’s… Picasso,” The New York Times (May 8, 1995), B4 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, Nazi Occupation 1940–1944 (San Francisco, 1999), p. 341, cat. 44–070 (ill).
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 44:03 (ill.).

New York, Buchholz Gallery, “Contemporary Drawings,” September 24–October 14, 1950, cat. 71 (ill.), as La Toilette.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, “Picasso: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings,” February 19–March 15, 1952, cat. 34 (ill.), as La Toilette.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition,” May 22–September 8, 1957, p. 90 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29–December 8, 1957.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Picasso,” January 8–February 23, 1958, cat. 213 (ill.).
Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, “Picasso: His Later Works, 1938–1961,” January 25–February 25, 1962, p. 16, cat. 11 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17–November 30, 1963, cat. 156.
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Toronto, “Picasso and Man,” January 11–February 16, 1964, p. 134, cat. 236 (ill.); traveled to The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 28–March 31, 1964.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916-1966,” February 28–March 11, 1966, cat. 96 (ill.).
Fort Worth, Tex., Fort Worth Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, “Picasso,” February 8–March 26, 1967, p. 104, cat. 201.
London, Tate Gallery, “Picasso: Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Work,” June 9–August 13, 1967, p. 127, cat. 254. (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 56, 84 and 117, cat. 96 (ill.).
Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, “Drawings from the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–18, 1972.
Chicago, R.S. Johnson International Gallery, “Hommage to Picasso,” Winter 1973, pp. 11 and 57, cat. 6 (ill.).
Cambridge, Mass, Fogg Art Museum, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” 1981, pp. 208–209, cat. 89 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle Tübingen, “Picasso, Pastelle Zeichnungen Aquarelle,” April 5–May 25, 1986, cat. 189 (ill.); traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, June 6-July 27, 1986.
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–Aug. 23, l987.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, “Pablo Picasso,” October 15, 1988–January 8, 1989, p. 242, cat. 205 (ill.).
New York, Pace Wildenstein, “Picasso and Drawing,” April 28–June 2, 1995, pp. 118, cat. 80 (ill.).
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, “Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945,” October 10, 1998–January 3, 1999, p. 196, cat. 76 (ill.); traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 5–April 26, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 74, cat. 173 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris [according to Cambridge 1981]. Curt Valentin (1902–1954), New York, by 1950 [New York 1950]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1955.

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