Portrait of Pablo Picasso

1. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884–1979), Paris. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 13–14, 1921, Kahnweiler sequestration sale, lot 49, to “Grassat” for Galerie Simon [letters from Kahnweiler, October 21, 1975, and December 2, 1975; copy in curatorial object file]. With Etienne Bignou (1891–1950), Paris, and Bignou Gallery, New York, by April 1933 (possibly as early as June 1930) to at least April 1946 [Zurich 1933 and Paris 1930; letters to Bignou from Alex Reid and Lefevre, March 22 and April 18, 1946]. Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, by February 1948 [Basel 1948]; sold to Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1949 [New York 1949; letter from Kahnweiler, December 2, 1975; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, by 1949 [letter from Jacques Seligmann to Curt Valentin, Mar. 18, 1949, and letter from Jane Wade to Seligmann, Apr. 5, 1949, Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]; sold to Leigh Block, Chicago, June 1949 [Block Collection Card in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants, 28th Exposition, Mar. 20–May 16, 1912, cat. 1426, as Figure.
• Dresden, Internationale Kunstausstellung, June–Sept. 1926, cat. 378.
• Paris, Galerie Simon, Exposition Retrospective Juan Gris, June 4–16, 1928, cat. 4.
• Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, In Memoriam: Juan Gris, February 1930, cat. 2.
• Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent ans de Peinture Française, June 15–30, 1930, cat. 41, as Hommage à Picasso.
• Amsterdam, Gemeentemuseum, Tentoonstelling van Fransche Kunst: Ecole de Paris, Apr. 1932, cat. 103.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Juan Gris, Apr. 2–26, 1933, cat. 33 (ill.), as from “M. Etienne Bignou, Paris.”
• Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, The Art of Today, Jan. 3–31, 1936, cat. 47, as “Collection Etienne Bignou Gallery.”
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, Mar. 2–Apr. 19, 1936, cat. 94, fig. 33.
• London, Alex Reid and Lefevre, L’Ecole de Paris, Nov. 1938, cat. 21 (ill.), as Hommage à Picasso.
• Freiburg im Breisgau, Friedrichsbau, Die Meister Französischer Malerei der Gegenwart, Oct. 20–Nov. 23, 1947, cat. 13 (ill.).
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Feb. 26–Mar. 24, 1948, cat. 5.

• R. Allard, La Revue de France, (Mar. 1912), 72.
• Guillaume Apollinaire, “Les Salon des Indépendants,” L’Intransigeant, Mar. 25, 1912, as Hommage à Picasso.
• Louis Vauxelles, “Au Salon des Indépendants,” Gil Blas, Mar.19, 1912, as Hommage à Piccasso.
• Juan, Gris “Uber die Möglichkeiten der Malerei,” trans. B. Schiratzki, Der Querschnitt, 5, no. 1 (Jan. 1925), 33 (ill.), as Bildnis Picasso, 1910.
• Will Grohmann, “Die Kunst der Gegenwart auf der Internationalen Kunstausstellung Dresden, 1926,” Der Cicerone, 18 (June 1926), 400 (ill.), as Bildnis Picasso.
• Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Im Propyläen, 1926), 84, 329 (ill.), 563, as Bildnis Picassos, 1911.
• Internationale Kunstausstellung, Internationale kunst ausstellung Dresden, exh. cat. (Dresden: Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1926), 66, cat. 378, as Bildnis Pablo Picasso.
• Der Querschnitt, 8, no. 7 (July 1928), 506 (ill.).
• Galerie Simon, Exposition Rétrospective Juan Gris (1887-1927), exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Simon, 1928), n.p., cat. 4, as Portrait de Picasso, 1912.
• Paul Vézelay, “Juan Gris,” Artwork 4, no. 16 (Winter 1928), 259 (ill.), as Portrait of Picasso, 1912.
• Daniel Henry, Juan Gris (Leipzig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1929), 2 (ill.), as Bildnis Picassos, 1912.
• Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, In Memoriam Juan Gris, 1887-1927, exh. cat. (Berlin: Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 1930), n.p., cat. 2, as Bildnis Picassos.

Portrait of Picasso

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Abstraction (Guitar and Glass)

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The Checkerboard

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Glass, Siphon and Checkerboard

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Glass and Playing Cards

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Table at a Café

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The Glass of Beer

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Still Life

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