Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child

Pablo Picasso · 1921

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris, by 1922 [this and the following, letter from Alexandre Rosenberg, Oct. 28, 1975; copy in curatorial file]; sold to John Quinn (1870–1924), New York, June 1922 [Invoice, June 12, 1922; copy in curatorial file]; Quinn estate, 1924 [New York 1926]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1926; by exchange to Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich von Reber (1880–1959), Lausanne, by Dec. 1926 [Schürer 1926]; sold to Paul Rosenberg, New York, June 9, 1953; sold to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Galeries Paul Rosenberg, 1922.
New York, Art Center, Memorial Exhibition of Representative Works Selected from the John Quinn Collection, January 7–30, 1926, p. 8, cat. 19, as Maternity.
New York, Brummer Galleries, Exhibition of Prints, Paintings and Sculpture from the John Quinn Collection, March 1926.
Chicago, Art Institute, 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. 57 (ill.); traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, October 29–December 8, 1957.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso: A Loan Exhibition of His Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, and Illustrated Books, January 8–February 23, 1958, cat. 100 (ill.).
Worcester Art Museum, The Dial and the Dial Collection, April 30–September 8, 1959, p. 86, cat. 78.
New York, Duveen Brothers, Inc., Picasso: An American Tribute—The Classical Phase, April 25–May 12, 1962, cat. 18 (ill.).
Fort Worth Art Center Museum and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: Two Concurrent Retrospective Exhibitions, February 8–March 26, 1967, p. 46, cat. 31 (ill.), as Mother and Child on a Beach.
Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 28, 57, and 113, cat. 25 (ill.).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Picasso and American Art, September 28,2006- February 4, 2007, pl. 48.
Bergen, Kunstmuseum, Picasso: Figure and Image, February 1–June 1, 2008, pp. 7 (ill.), 33 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

L’Esprit Nouveau 19:192 (December 1923), n.p. (ill.).
The Dial LXXIV (March 1923) (ill.).
Cocteau, Jean, Picasso (Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923), n.p. (ill.), as Maternité.
Waldemar, George, Pablo Picasso (Rome: Valori Plastici, 1924), pl. VII.
Art Center, Memorial Exhibition of Representative Works Selected from the John Quinn Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Art Center, 1926), p. 8, cat. 19, as Maternity.
Quinn, John, 1870–1925: Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings, & Sculpture (New York: Pidgeon Hills Press, 1926), pp. 12 and 101 (ill.), as Maternité.
Watson, Forbes, “The John Quinn Collection, Part III,” The Arts 9 (February 1926), p. 87 (ill.), as Maternity.
Schürer, Oscar, “Pablo Picasso,” Der Cicerone 18:23 (December 1926), p. 769 (ill.), as Mutter mit Kind am Meer.
---, Pablo Picasso (Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1927), n.p. (ill.), as Mutter mit Kind am Meer.
Der Querschnitt 10 (1929), p. 717 (ill.).
Cahiers d’Art 3-5 (June 1932), n.p. (ill.), as Femme et enfant au bord de la mer.
Wilenski, R. J., Modern French Painters (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940), pp. 285 and 297, fig. 81B, as Femme et enfant au bord de la mer.

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