The Old Guitarist

1. Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris, c. 1906, probably acquired directly from the artist [New York 2006]; sold through Carroll Galleries, New York, to John Quinn (1870–1924), New York, 1915 [Feb. 26, 1915 letter from John Quinn to Ambroise Vollard, and Memorandum of Pictures consigned to Carroll Galleries, Inc., John Quinn Collection, New York Public Library Manuscript Division, copies in curatorial object file]; Quinn Estate, 1924; sold through Felix Wildenstein, Art Centre auction, New York, to Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris, Jan. 9, 1926 [“52 Picasso Paintings Sold,” New York Times, Jan. 10, 1926, copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Joseph Stransky, The French Galleries, New York, to Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, 1926 [May 21, 1927 letter from Frederic Clay Bartlett to Joseph Stransky and Nov. 17, 1975 letter from Alexandre Rosenberg to Courtney G. Donnell, copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 30, 1926.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Probably Paris, Galerie Vollard, Exposition Picasso, Dec. 1910–Feb. 1911, no cat.
• New York, Carroll Galleries, Third Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1915, cat. 3, as The Guitarrist [sic].
• Chicago, Arts Club, Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Mar. 26–Apr. 9, 1930, cat. 6, as Le Guitariste, about 1910.
• Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 402, as The Guitarist, 1903.
• Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, Feb. 6–Mar. 1, 1934, cat. 11 (ill.), as Vieux Guitariste, 1903.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 358, as The Guitarist, 1903.
• New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, Picasso: “Blue” and “Rose” Periods, 1901–1906, Nov. 2–26, 1936, cat. 15 (ill.), as The Old Guitar Player (The Guitarist), Barcelona, 1903.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, Nov. 15, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 1–Mar. 3, 1940; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Mar. 17–Apr. 14, 1940; Boston, Museum of Art, Apr. 26–May 25, 1940; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 25–July 22, 1940; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Sept. 28–Oct. 27, 1940; Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 7–Dec. 8, 1940; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum, Dec. 20, 1940–Jan. 17, 1941; Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Mar. 17–Apr. 13, 1941, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903 (New York, Chicago, and possibly St. Louis only).
• Chicago, Art Institute, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, Sept. 12–Dec. 15, 1955, no cat.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, Feb. 3–Mar. 31, 1968, cat. 7 (ill.).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 148 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903/4; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17–May 13, 2007 and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18–Sept. 16, 2007 (New York and Chicago only).
• Chicago, Art Institute, Picasso and Chicago, Feb. 20–May 12, 2013, cat. 6 (ill.).

• Henri Guilbeaux, “Exposition Pablo Picasso (Vollard, rue Laffitte),” Les Hommes du Jour 3, 155 (Jan. 7, 1911), n.pag., as “vieux musicien.”
• Harriett C. Bryant, Third Exhibition of Contemporary French Art (Carroll Galleries, 1915), n.pag., cat. 3, as The Guitarrist [sic].
• “What is Happening in the World of Art,” Sun, Mar. 14, 1915, sec. 3, p. 2 (ill.), as The Guitarist.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 48 (1926), p. 56 (ill.), as The Guitarist.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 36–37 (ill.), 57, as Le Guitariste.
• John Quinn, John Quinn, 1870–1925: Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture (Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926), pp. 12, 96 (ill.), as The Guitarist—Blue Period.
• R. M. F., “Cézanne, Rousseau, Picasso,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20, 5 (May 1926), p. 64 (ill.), as “The Guitarist.”
• R. M. F., “Helen Birch-Bartlett Memorial Collection Now Installed,” Art News 24, 31 (May 8, 1926), p. 2, as “The Guitarist.”
• Forbes Watson, “A Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,” Arts 9 (June 1926), pp. 307 (ill.), 312, as The Guitarist.
• Christian Zervos, “Picasso: Œuvres Inédites Anciennes,” Cahiers d’Art 3, 5–6 (1928), p. 213 (ill.).
• Morton Dauwen Zabel, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, 6 (Dec. 1928), pp. 233 (ill.), 235, as Le Guitariste.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1930), n.pag., cat. 6, as Le Guitariste, about 1910.

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