Head of a Woman (Fernande)

1. Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris, c. 1910–12; sold to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, Jan. 15, 1912 [Temkin and Umland 2015]; by descent to his estate, the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York, July 13, 1946 [Georgia O'Keefe executor]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 3, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Feb. 15–Mar. 15, 1913, cat. 598, as Bust.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, cat. 6, as Head of Fernande Olivier.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, Sept.–Dec. 1955, no cat.
• Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America," Jan. 28–Apr. 22, 2001.
• Bergen, Kunstmuseene i Bergen, Picasso : figur og bilde, Feb. 2–June 8, 2008.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007; Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17–May 13, 2007; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18–Sept. 16, 2007 (Chicago only).
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso Sculpture, Sept. 14, 2015–Feb. 7, 2016; Paris, Musée Picasso, Mar. 8-Aug. 28, 2016.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso: Drawing from Life, Nov. 11, 2023–Apr. 8, 2024, no cat.

• Camera Work, special number (August 1912), n.p. (ill.), as Sculpture.
• Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso II:2 (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1942), p. 266, no. 573 (ill.), as Tete.
• A. James Speyer, "Twentieth-Century European Painting and Sculpture," Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 222.
• Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show (New York: Abbeville Publishers, 1988) pp. 75 (ill.), 302, no. 598.
• Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Cubism (1907–1917), trans. by Susan Branyas, Richard-Lewis Rees, and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1990), pp. 152–153 and 502. no. 433 (ill.).
• James N. Wood, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 248 (ill.)
• James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 19 (ill.), as Head of Fernande Olivier.
• Sarah Greenough, et. al., Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001), pp. 124–125, cat. 22 (ill.).
• James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 242 (ill.).
• La epoca de Picasso: donaciones a los museos americanos (Santander: Fundación Marcelino Botín, 2004), pp. 43 and 246.
• Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 09:17 (ill.).
• Stephanie D'Alessandro, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917, exh. cat (Art Institute of Chicago, 2010), pp. 128-129, fig. 13c.

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

Weeping Woman I

Art Institute of Chicago

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