Guitar on a Table

Prints and Drawings

1924

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Guitar on a Table
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1924
Medium: Oil wash and graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso" (underlined)
Dimensions: 15.5 × 20 cm (6 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.999
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue 1885–1973, Neoclassicism II, 1922–1924 (San Francisco, 1996), p. 194, cat. 24-018 (ill.).
José Antonio Mesa Toré, Picasso y la poesía, exh. cat. (Málaga, Spain: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 2003), p. 38 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 196, cat. 145 (ill.), as Guitar on a Table.

Wellesley College Art Museum, Mar. 29–June 8 1986.
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. 196, cat. 145 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago,” Feb. 20-May 12, 2013, hors cat.

The artist to his friend, Etienne de Beaumont (1883–1956). Perls Galleries. Arturo Schwarz, Milan. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Feb. 23, 1984, lot 38. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 27, 1985, lot 343, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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