Woman in Profile

Prints and Drawings

c. 1904

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Woman in Profile
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1900–1910
Medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor, with blotting, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper right, in pen and brown ink: "Picasso" (underlined)
Dimensions: 17.4 × 11.3 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.454
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888–1950 (Madison, Conn., 1990), p. 705.

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago,” November 4–25, 1938, n.p., cat. 110, as Femme en Profile.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “International Exhibition of Water Colors 18th Annual,” March 23–May 14, 1939, cat. 138.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, hors cat.

Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; 1867-1956), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914–1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917–1984), Sarasota, Fla.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.

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