
Art Institute of Chicago
Fernande Olivier
Pablo Picasso · summer 1906
Provenance
Ownership history
- Oscar Huldschinsky (1846-1931), Berlin [according to Cambridge, Mass. 1981]. Mrs. A. Fürstenberg, Amsterdam [according to Cambridge, Mass. 1981]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York to the Art Institute, 1951.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "20th Century Portraits," December 9, 1942–January 24, 1943, p. 48 (ill.).
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17–November 30, 1963, cat. 154, pl. XLIX.
- Kassel, Alte Galerie, Musuem Fridericianum, "Documenta III, Handzeichnungen," June 27-October 5, 1964, vol 3, part 2 cat. 12, p. 186.
- St Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists and Draughtsmen," March 13–April 8, 1966, no cat.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Fort Worth Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "Picasso," February 8–March 26, 1967, p. 101, cat. 17.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 61, 56, and 116, cat. 63 (ill.).
- Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings and Prints from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 4–27, 1974, cat. 37.
- Frankfort-am-Main, Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstiutut, "Franzöische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10–April 10, 1977, pp. 176–177, cat. 85 (ill.).
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Master Drawings by Picasso," Februarry 20–April 5, 1981, pp. 68–69, cat 19 (ill); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 11–August 23, 1981.
- Tübingen Germany, Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle," April 5–May 25, 1986, n.p., cat. 36 (ill.); traveled to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, June 6–July 27, 1986.
- Barcelona, Picasso Museum, "Picasso 1905-1906, From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol," February 5–April 19, 1992, pp. 296–297, cat. 132 (ill.); traveled to the Kunstmuseum, Berne, May 8–June 26, 1992.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation," April 28–September 17, 1996, p. 259 (ill.); traveled to the Grand Palais, Paris, October 1996–January 1997.
Literature
Published references
- Maurice Raynal, Picasso (Munich, 1921), p. XI, as Tête de Femme.
- Pablo Picasso (The World’s Master’s) (London, 1930), pl. III, as Head of a Woman.
- The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 46:4 (November 15, 1952), p. 75 (ill.).
- Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, VI (Paris, 1954) no. 747 (ill.).
- Alfred Frankfurter, "Il bon disegno from Chicago," Art News 62: 7 (November 1963) p. 29, fig. 6 (ill.).
- Ileana Soldea, Picasso (Bucharest, 1972), p. 60, fig. 15.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 165 (ill.).
- Edward Burns, Gertrude Stein on Picasso (New York, 1970), p. 60 (ill.).
- Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité (Geneva, 1971), p. 211 (ill.).
- Alan G. Wilkinson, “Picasso: Head of a Woman (Fernande),” Art Gallery of Ontario, Masterpiece Exhibition Series 3 (1986), p. 5, fig. 4.
- Picasso: The Ludwig Collection, exh. cat. (Munich, 1992), p. 56 (ill.).
- John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: Volume II 1907–1917 (New York, 1996), p. 233 (ill.).
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