
Art Institute of Chicago
Man with a Pipe
Pablo Picasso · 1915
Provenance
Ownership history
- Rolf de Maré (1888–1964), Paris by 1932 [Hugnet 1932]. Eugenia Huici de Errázuriz (1859–1951), Paris, by 1934 [Hartford 1934]. Rolf de Maré, Paris and Sweden, by 1942–1951 [Zervos 1942 and Gieure 1951]. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Lake Forest, Ill. and Santa Barbara, Calif.; given to the Art Institute, 1952.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Modern Gallery, Picasso Exhibition, December 15, 1915–January 3, 1916, cat VI, as Nature Morte, 1915.
- Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Exposition Picasso, June 16–July 30, 1932, p. 38, cat. 103, as L’ Homme á la pipe.
- Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, February 6–March 1, 1934, n.p., cat. 30, as Homme à la Pipe, 1916.
- São Paulo, Brazil, Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Exposição Picasso, December 1953–February 1954, pp. 29 and 40, cat. 8 (ill.), as O Homem do Cachimbo–L’ homme á la pipe.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, September–December 1955, no cat..
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, May 22–September 8, 1957, p. 115 (ill.), as Man with Pipe; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29–December 8, 1957.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso, January 8–February 23, 1958, p. 18, cat. 79 (ill.), as Man with Pipe.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 26-7 and 113, cat. 23 (ill.), as Man with a Pipe.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, May 22–September 16, 1980, p. 189 (ill.) as Man with a Pipe.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Picasso and American Art, September 28, 2006–February 4, 2007; traveled to San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, February 25–May 20, 2007; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, June 1–September 9, 2007.
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 6, 2013–February 16, 2014, no cat. no.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Picasso and Rivera: Conversations across the time," December 4, 2016–April 30, 2017; traveled to Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, June 7, 2017–September 10, 2017.
Literature
Published references
- Galeries Georges Petit, Exposition Picasso, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1932), p. 38, cat. 103, as L’ Homme á la pipe.
- Georges Hugnet, “Picasso ou la peinture au XXe siècle,” Cahiers D’ Art, Numero Special: Exposition d' Œuvres de Picasso aux Galleries Georges Petit (June 1932) p. 37 (ill.), as Homme à la pipe.
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1934), n.p., cat. 30, as Homme à la Pipe, 1916.
- Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso II (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1942), p. 261, no 564 (ill.), as Homme au chapeau melon assis dans un fauteuil.
- Maurice Gieure, Initiation a l’ œuvre de Picasso (Paris: Éditions des Deux Mondes, 1951), pp. 70 and 333, pl. 37, as L’homme à la pipe.
- Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Exposição Picasso, exh. cat. (São Paulo, Brazil: Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1953), pp. 29 and 40, cat. 8 (ill.), as O Homem do Cachimbo–L’ homme á la pipe.
- Frank Elgar and Robert Maillard, Picasso (Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1955), n.p. (ill.), as Homme au chapeau melon assis dans un fauteuil.
- Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957), p. 115 (ill.), as Man with Pipe.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1958), p. 18, cat. 79 (ill.), as Man with Pipe.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 357.
- Jacques Damase, Pablo Picasso, trans by Haydn Barnes (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965), pp. 35 and 87 (ill.), as Man Seated in an Armchair.
- Yoshiaki Tono, Picasso/Braque, Gendai Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu 7 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1966), p. 114, pl. 14, as Homme à la pipe.
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