Léonide Massine

Prints and Drawings

1919

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Léonide Massine
Place: Spain (Object made in)
Date: 1919
Medium: Graphite on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower right, in graphite: "Picasso (underlined) / Londres 1919"
Dimensions: 400 × 310 mm
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1972.970
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Ballet Russes, Programme Officiel (1919–1920), (ill.).
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1949), p. 105, no. 297 (ill.).
Richard Buckle, In Search of Diaghilev (London, 1955), p. 31, fig. 30.
Roland Penrose, Portrait of Picasso (New York, 1957), no. 112, p. 46. (ill.).
Douglas Cooper, Picasso, Théâtre (Paris, 1967), p. 41, no. 140 (ill.).
Boris Kochno, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes (New York, 1970), p. 133 (ill.).
Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et Unité (Geneva, 1971), p. 235 (ill.).
Richard Hayden Axsom, “Parade: Cubism as Theater” (Ph.D dissertation, University of Michigan, 1974), pp. 1 and 251, fig. 3.
David Elliot, “Mysterious mastery of Picasso—again,” Chicago Sun Times (May 17, 1981), p. 22 (ill.).
Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (New York, 1984), p. 127 (ill.).
Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881–1973, I (Cologne, 1992), p. 268 (ill.).
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicm 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), p. 237, no. 19–220 (ill.).
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Picasso Papers (New York, 1998), pp. 152-153, fig. 51.
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Dels Ballets al Drama (1917–1926) (Barcelona, 1999), pp. 132 and 497, no. 386 (ill.).
Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Style and Meaning (London, 2002), pp.332 and 333, no. 287 (ill.).
Enrique Mallen, The On-Line Picasso Project (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/), no. 19:12 (ill.).

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, “Collection of Leonide Massine”, February 18–March 9, 1935, n.p., cat. 33.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, “Massine Collection,” May 3–October 3, 1935, no. cat..
Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, “Diaghilev Exhibition,” 1954, p. 33, cat. 487.
London, Forbes House, “The Diaghilev Exhibition,” 1955, p. 29, cat. 495.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Sixty Years of The Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits,” November 17, 1975–January 3, 1976, p. 43, cat. 59 (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso Retrospective,” May 1–September 16, 1980, p. 217 (ill.).
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Master Drawings by Picasso,” February 20–April 5, 1981, pp. 150–151, cat. 59 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 29–June 14, 1981; and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 11–August 23, 1981.
New York, Pace Gallery, “Je suis le cahier: The Sketchbooks of Pablo Picasso,” 1986, hors cat.; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 10–August 23, l987.
Bielefeld, Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, “Picassos Klassizismus: Werke von 1914–1934,” April 17–July 31, 1988, pp. 215 and 313–314, cat. 16 (ill.).
London, Tate Gallery, “Matisse/Picasso,” 2002, p. 183, cat. 84 (ill.); shown only at Paris, the Grand Palais, September 25, 2002–January 6, 2003; and New York, the Museum of Modern Art, February 13–May 19, 2003.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso and Chicago”, February 20-May 12, 2013, p. 58, cat. 63 (ill.), cat. by Stephanie d’Alessandro.
Rome, Italy, Scuderie del Quirinale, “Pablo Picasso Between Cubism and Classicism: 1915-1925”, September 21, 2017 - January 21, 2018, p. 168, cat. 86 (ill.).

The artist to Leonide Massine (1896–1979), Paris, 1919 [London 1971]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 7, 1971, lot 87, to Georges Bernier, Paris [London 1971]. Sold by Coe-Kerr Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.

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