Kitty at 291, 1915

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Remarks

Behind Kitty is Picasso’s charcoal drawing Head of a Woman, 1909 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), exhibited at 291 from 12 to 26 January 1915.

Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

1921, New York (no. 59, as Kitty—at “291”, 1915)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1921 / Kitty at 291 / 1915 Spring

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 56 D

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 399.

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