The Red Armchair

1. The artist; Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1955 [letter from Eleanore Saidenberg, Oct. 10, 1975; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Saidenberg Gallery, July 25, 1956 [Invoice, July 25, 1956; copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Picasso, June 16–July 30, 1932, p. 65, cat. 199, as La Femme au Fauteuil Rouge.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Picasso, September 11–October 30, 1932, p. 15, cat. 203, as Frau in Rotem Lehnstuhl.
• Rome, Galeria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Mostra di Pablo Picasso, May–July 5, 1953, p. 36, cat. 21 (ill.).
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Pablo Picasso, September–November 1953, p. 51, cat. 59 (ill.).
• Paris, Musée des arts Decoratifs, Picasso: Peintures 1900-1955, June–October 1955, cat. 76 (ill.).
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, Picasso 1900-1955, October 25–December 18, 1955, cat. 65 (ill.); traveled to Cologne, Rheinisches Museum, December 30, 1955–February 29, 1956 and Hamburg, Kunstverein, Kunsthalle-Artbau, March 10–April 26, 1956.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago, February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 35 amd 114, cat. 35 (ill.).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, May 22–September 16, 1980, p. 288 (ill.).
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Picasso and the 'Weeping Women,' February 13–May 1, 1994, pp. 154–155, fig. 116; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 12–September 4, 1994, and The Art Institute of Chicago, October 8, 1994–January 8, 1995.

• Galeries Georges Petit, Picasso, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1932), p. 65, cat. 199.
• Cahiers d’Art 3–5 (June 1932), n.p. (ill.).
• Kunsthaus Zurich, Picasso, exh. cat. (Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1932), p. 15, cat. 203.
• Hans Heilmaier, “Ein Meister Heutiger Malerie, zur grossen Picasso-Austellung in Paris,” Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 70 (April–September 1932), p. 360 (ill.), as Frau im Roten Sessel.
• Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso VII (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1951), p. 139, no. 334 (ill.), as Femme Dans un Fauteuil.
• Lionello Venturi, Mostra di Pablo Picasso (Rome: Galeria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1953), p. 36, cat. 21 (ill.).
• Palazzo Reale, Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Milan: Edizioni d’arte Amilcare Pizzi, 1953), p. 51, cat. 59 (ill.).
• Maurice Raynal, Picasso, The Taste of Our Time Series, trans. by James Emmons (Geneva: Skira, 1953), p. 92 (ill.).
• Musée des arts Decoratifs, Picasso: Peintures 1900-1955, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée des arts Decoratifs, 1955), cat. 76 (ill.).
• Haus der Kunst, Picasso 1900-1955, exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1955), cat. 65 (ill.).
• Alexander Watt, “The Problem of Picasso,” Studio 150:752 (Nov. 1955), pp. 144, 146 (ill).
• José Camón Aznar, Picasso y el Cubismo (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1956), p. 499, fig. 370, as Mujeres.

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