Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Léonide Massine

Pablo Picasso · 1917

Provenance

Ownership history

Given by the artist to Leonide Massine (1896–1979) [inscription]; given to Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, Dec. 1936 [inscription]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, "French Paintings: Collection of Léonide Massine," February 18–March 9, 1935, cat. 29.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Picasso in Chicago," February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 70 and 116, cat. 78 (ill.).
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–Aug. 23, l987.
Barcelona, Museo Picasso, "Picasso y el Teatro," November 19, 1996–February 23, 1997, p. 82, cat. 63 (ill.).
Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, "Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change", July 10 - September 11, 2016.

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, VI (Paris, 1954), p. 160, no. 1341 (ill.).
Douglas Cooper, Picasso, Théâtre (Paris, 1967), p. 24, fig. 75.
Léonide Massine, My Life in Ballet (London, 1968), p. 108 (ill.).
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 17.
Robert Storr, “For Sale: The Elizabeth Goodspeed Chapman Collection,” The Connoisseur 206:82 (February 1981), p. 134 (ill.).
Federico Sopeña Ibañez, Picasso y la Musica (Madrid, 1982), p. 63 (ill.).
The Picasso Projects, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), p. 42, no. 17–148 (ill.).

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