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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.155
People
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)
Title
Weeping Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Oct. 28, 1937
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298060

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil washes and black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
40 x 26.1 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
framed: 61.6 × 47 × 5.7 cm (24 1/4 × 18 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: upper left: picasso 28 octobre 37

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Perls Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.155
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Editions Cahiers d'art (Paris, 1932-1978), vol. 9, no. 76, pl. 32
  • Fifteen Drawings [by Picasso], Pantheon Books (Paris, 1946), pl. 14
  • Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso, Fifty Years of His Art, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1946), p. 280
  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 94
  • Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 221, pl. 222
  • Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 221, pl. 206
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 221, p. 142, pl. 206, repr.
  • Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 66
  • Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Metamorphose et Unité, Skira (Geneva, Switzerland, 1971), p. 81, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 15, p. 40 note 72, cat. no. 48 p. 106
  • Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat. no. 81, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Modern French Art, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, 01/05/1952 - 01/12/1952
  • French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • Master Drawings by Picasso, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/20/1981 - 04/05/1981; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/29/1981 - 06/14/1981; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 07/11/1981 - 08/23/1981
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/27/2022

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