Woman in an Armchair

Prints and Drawings

1918

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Woman in an Armchair
Origin: Spain
Date: 1918
Medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Picasso" (underlined)
Dimensions: 275 × 199 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.717
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1961), p. 55, no. 155 (ill.).
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso (New York, 1955), p. 465, no. 81 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), no. 18-185 (ill.).

New York, Marlborough Gerson Gallery, “A Tribute to Curt Valentin,” November–December 1963, cat. 180.
Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, 1973.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Picasso: Master of Line,” July 6–September 30, 1973.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.
Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, 1990.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 42.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 193, cat. 142 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, hors cat.

Jacques Sarlie (c. 1915–1988), New York; sold, Sotheby’s, London, October 12, 1960, lot 12, to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1963; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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