Young Woman Seated in an Armchair

1921-1922

Pablo Picasso

Associated Names
Pablo Picasso

Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973

The image depicts a person seated on a chair. The person has long, wavy hair tied back with a black band. They are wearing a draped toga-like garment. The figure has strong facial features with defined eyes, a straight nose, and neutral lips. The background is minimal, with rough brush strokes defining the chair and blank space.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and gray ink with white gouache and black ink on paper washed light blue

  • Credit Line

    The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.1 x 23.7 cm (10 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.60.43

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zervos, Vol. IV, no. 360

  • Copyright

    © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, c. 1928; John U. and Elinor Castle Nef, Chicago; John U. Nef and his second wife, Evelyn Stefansson Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, 318-319 (color)(entry by Barbara Read Ward).

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, no. 42 (color)(entry by Barbara Read-Staubs)

Bibliography

1932

  • Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. 33 vols. Paris, 1932-1978, no. 360 [as oil on canvas].

1971

  • Leymarie, Jean. Picasso Métamorphoses et unité. Geneva, 1971: 76.

1995

  • Picasso’s paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture : a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. 25 vols. (Neoclassicism I, 1920-1921, Mariel Jardines, author). San Francisco: Alan Wolfsy Fine Arts, 1995, no. 21-319 [as oil on canvas].

2010

  • Robison, Andrew. "Gifts and Acquisitions: Pablo Picasso, Young Woman Seated in an Armchair." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 43 (Fall 2010): 24-25, repro..

Inscriptions

signed in brush and black ink at upper left

Watermarks

Montgolfier a St. Marcel-les-Annonay

Wikidata ID

Q64618767

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