Nude with Cats

1. Possibly Pere Mañach, Paris, acquired as compensation from the artist, 1901 [New York 2006]. Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris [Zervos 1932; Daix and Boudaille 1966]. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, by 1929 to at least 1930 [New York 1929; Providence, R.I. 1930]. Amy McCormick (Mrs. Robert R. McCormick, formerly Amie de Houle Adams, née Amie de Houle Irwin, May 15, 1874–Aug. 16, 1939) and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880–Apr. 1, 1955), Chicago, by July 1, 1935; given to the Art Institute, Nov. 12, 1942.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galeries Vollard, Exposition de tableaux de F. Iturrino et de P. R. Picasso, June 25–July 14, 1901, cat. 17, as La Folle aux Chats.
• New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Water Colors by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Braque, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Laurencin, Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Redon, and Others, Oct. 12–Nov. 9, 1929, cat. 3, as Woman and Cats.
• Providence, R.I., Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, Mar. 11–31, 1930, cat. 28, as Woman with Cat.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Summer Exhibition: Loan Collection of Old and Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, July 25–Oct. 13, 1935, no. 32, no cat.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, Nov. 4–25, 1938, cat. 108, as Woman Playing with Cats.
• Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the 4 Arts, Spanish Painting, Jan. 11–Feb. 6, 1952, cat. 35, as Woman with Cats.
• Denver Art Museum, Ten Directions by Ten Artists, Jan. 7–Feb. 14, 1954, cat. 60, as Woman with Cat, 1901.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, Sept. 12–Dec. 15, 1955, no cat., as Woman with a Cat, 1901.
• Coral Gables, Fla., Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, Renoir to Picasso 1914, Feb. 8–Mar. 10, 1963, cat. 90 (ill.), as Woman with Cats, 1901.
• Toronto, Art Gallery, Picasso and Man, Jan. 11–Feb. 16, 1964, cat. 8 (ill.), as Nude Woman with Cats/Nu et chats, Paris 1901; traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 28–Mar. 31, 1964.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, Feb. 3–Mar. 31, 1968, cat. 2 (ill.), as Nude with Cats, 1901.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant–Garde, Sept. 13, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 140, fig. 111, as Crazy Woman with Cats, 1901; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17–May 13, 2007 and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18–Sept. 16, 2007.

• Galeries Vollard, Exposition de tableaux de F. Iturrino et de P. R. Picasso, exh. cat. (Galeries Vollard, 1901), p. 10, cat. 17, as La Folle aux Chats.
• Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Water Colors by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Braque, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Laurencin, Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Redon, and Others, exh. cat. (Reinhardt Galleries, 1929), n.pag., cat. 3, as Woman and Cats.
• “Reinhardt Galleries Show Paintings Recently Brought from Europe,” Art News 28, 3 (October 19, 1929), pp. 4, 5 (ill.), as Woman and Cats.
• Rhode Island School of Design, Modern French Art, exh. cat. (Rhode Island School of Design, 1930), n.pag., cat. 28, as Woman with Cat.
• Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, Œuvres de 1895 a 1906 (Cahiers d’Art, 1932), pl. 46, no. 93; n.pag., no. 93, as Nu et chats, Paris, 1901.
• Eleanor Jewett, “Summer Show at Institute Is Worth Seeing,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 25, 1935, p. 13, as Woman with Cats.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1938), n.pag., cat. 108, as Woman Playing with Cats.
• Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (Museum of Modern Art, 1946), p. 280, as Woman with Cats, 1901.
• Joan Merli, Picasso, 2nd ed. (Editorial Poseidon, 1948), n.pag., fig. 55, as Desnudo y gatos, 1901.
• Society of the 4 Arts, Spanish Painting, exh. cat. (Society of the 4 Arts, 1952), n.pag., cat. 35, as Woman with Cats.
• John Ulbricht, Ten Directions by Ten Artists, exh. cat. (Denver Art Museum, 1954), n.pag., cat. 60, as Woman with Cat, 1901.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 356, as Woman with Cats, 1901.

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