
Art Institute of Chicago
Nude under a Pine Tree
Pablo Picasso · January 20, 1959
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, by 1961 [letter from B. Leonovich, Museum of Art, Moscow, to Carole Herman, Apr. 14, 1967; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Moscow, Pavilion of Culture, French National Exhibition, August 15–September 15, 1961, cat. 48.
- Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Three Spaniards: Picasso, Miro, Chillida, February 6–March 4, 1962 (ill.).
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Dunn International Exhibition, September 1963, cat. 70 (ill.); traveled to The Tate Gallery, London, November 15–December 22, 1963.
- Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, May 23–July 5, 1964, cat. 133 (ill.) as Female Nude Under a Pine; traveled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, July 10–August 2, 1964; and Nagoya, Prefectural Museum of Art, August 7–18, 1964.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 50 and 115, cat. 54 (ill.).
- Chicago, Art Institute, The Grant J. Pick Collection, June 20–August 16, 1970, p. 6–7 (ill.).
- New York, Marlborough Gallery, Homage to Picasso, October 5–30, 1971, p. 88, cat. 77 (ill.).
- London, The Tate Gallery, Late Picasso: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints 1953–1972, June 23–September 18, 1988, p. 161, cat. 10 (ill.); traveled to Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, February 17–May 16, 1988, cat. 15 (ill.).
- Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Pablo Picasso: Die Zeit nach Guernica 1937-1973, December 8, 1992–February 21, 1993, cat. 122 (ill.), as Weiblicher Akt Unter Einer Kiefer; traveled to Munich, Kunsthalle, March 11–June 6, 1993, and Hamburg, Kunsthalle, June 18–August 18, 1993.
- West Palm Beach, Fla., Norton Gallery School of Art, Picasso: A Vision, March 2–April 3, 1994, pp. 20 and 49, cat. 27 (ill.).
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- Museum of Fine Arts, Three Spaniards: Picasso, Miro, Chillida (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962) (ill.).
- Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Dunn International Exhibition (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1963), cat. 70 (ill.).
- Brassaï, Conversations avec Picasso (Paris: Gallimard, 1964; London: Thames and Hudson, 1966), fig. 52, as Une Femme Couchée Sous un Pin.
- “Dunn International Exhibition: The Best Contemporary Paintings Come to the Tate,” Studio CLXVII (January 1964), pp. 64–65 (ill.), as Female Nude Under a Pine.
- National Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso (Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 1964), cat. 133 (ill.).
- Segui, Sinichi, Pablo Picasso (Tokyo: San-Ichi Shoho, 1964), pl. 44, as Female Nude Under a Pine.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1965–1966), pp. 9 and 27.
- Tono, Yoshiaki, Picasso/Braque, Gendai Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu 7 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1966), p. 126, pl. 47, as Femme Nue Sous un Pin.
- “Two Masterpieces Are Acquired by The Art Institute,” Chicago Sun-Times (February 19, 1966), p. 3 (ill.), as Nude Woman Under a Pine Tree.
- “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums in October-December 1965," The Art Quarterly XXIX:1 (1966), pp. 76 and 86.
- The Art Quarterly XXIX:2 (1966), pp. 171 and 183 (ill.).
- Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago LX:3 (May 1966), p. 2 (ill. cover).
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