
Art Institute of Chicago
Léonide Massine
Pablo Picasso · 1919
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist to Leonide Massine (1896–1979), Paris, 1919 [London 1971]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1971, lot 87, to Georges Bernier, Paris [London 1971]. Sold by Coe-Kerr Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, "Collection of Leonide Massine", February 18–March 9, 1935, n.p., cat. 33.
- Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Massine Collection," May 3–October 3, 1935, no. cat..
- Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, "Diaghilev Exhibition," 1954, p. 33, cat. 487.
- London, Forbes House, "The Diaghilev Exhibition," 1955, p. 29, cat. 495.
- Chicago, Arts Club, "Sixty Years of The Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits," November 17, 1975–January 3, 1976, p. 43, cat. 59 (ill.).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Picasso Retrospective," May 1–September 16, 1980, p. 217 (ill.).
- Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Master Drawings by Picasso," February 20–April 5, 1981, pp. 150–151, cat. 59 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981; and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 11–August 23, 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.
- Bielefeld, Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, "Picassos Klassizismus: Werke von 1914–1934," April 17–July 31, 1988, pp. 215 and 313–314, cat. 16 (ill.).
- London, Tate Gallery, "Matisse/Picasso," 2002, p. 183, cat. 84 (ill.); shown only at Paris, the Grand Palais, September 25, 2002–January 6, 2003; and New York, the Museum of Modern Art, February 13–May 19, 2003.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso and Chicago", February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 58, cat. 63 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d'Alessandro.
- Rome, Italy, Scuderie del Quirinale, "Pablo Picasso Between Cubism and Classicism: 1915-1925", September 21, 2017 - January 21, 2018, p. 168, cat. 86 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Ballet Russes, Programme Officiel (1919–1920), (ill.).
- Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1949), p. 105, no. 297 (ill.).
- Richard Buckle, In Search of Diaghilev (London, 1955), p. 31, fig. 30.
- Roland Penrose, Portrait of Picasso (New York, 1957), no. 112, p. 46. (ill.).
- Douglas Cooper, Picasso, Théâtre (Paris, 1967), p. 41, no. 140 (ill.).
- Boris Kochno, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes (New York, 1970), p. 133 (ill.).
- Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et Unité (Geneva, 1971), p. 235 (ill.).
- Richard Hayden Axsom, “Parade: Cubism as Theater” (Ph.D dissertation, University of Michigan, 1974), pp. 1 and 251, fig. 3.
- David Elliot, “Mysterious mastery of Picasso—again,” Chicago Sun Times (May 17, 1981), p. 22 (ill.).
- Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (New York, 1984), p. 127 (ill.).
- Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881–1973, I (Cologne, 1992), p. 268 (ill.).
- The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicm 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), p. 237, no. 19–220 (ill.).
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