1998.234: Standing Nude Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.234

People

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish (Malaga, Spain 1881 - 1973 Mougins, France)

Title

Standing Nude Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1906-1907

Culture

Spanish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312360

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and red gouache on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

63.8 x 45.2 cm (25 1/8 x 17 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: [design of shield with letter C; caduceus; letter F] [in script:] Ingres 1871
• inscription: lower left, graphite: 60 x [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Heinrich Stinnes (1913- 1932); his sale [Gutekunst &Klipstein, Bern, June 20-22, 1938, cat.979].[Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York (by 1939)], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Copyright

© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

1998.234

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Editions Cahiers d'art (Paris, 1932-1978), vol. 6, no. 877, pl. 105
• Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), cat. no. 24, repr.
• Hélène Seckel, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, exh. cat., Musée national Picasso-Paris (Paris, 1988), cat. 38
• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1999-2000 (Cambridge, MA, 2001), p. 11, repr. p. 11
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 188, fig. 24, pp. 35, 55, 56, 75, 115, p. 189 note 25, 371, 374, 381
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 185, repr.

Exhibition History

• 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
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/27/2016 - 11/01/2016
• Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights

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