Inscription: Signed in black paint, lower right: Picasso
Frank Burty Haviland, Paris (by ca. 1905–at least 1909; probably acquired from the artist); Roger Dutilleul, Paris (in 1912); Baron Napoléon Gourgaud, Paris; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (ca. 1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1931–82, inv. 31.755; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue (typed checklist no. 29; as "Mother and Child").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 29 (as "Mother and Child").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
New York. Jacques Seligmann & Co. "Picasso: 'Blue' and 'Rose' Periods, 1901–1906: Loan Exhibition," November 2–26, 1936, no. 6.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 74.
Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 114.
Yokohama Museum of Art. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century," March 25–June 4, 1989, no. 160.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Picasso: The Early Years, 1892–1906," March 30–July 27, 1997, no. 72.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Picasso: The Early Years, 1892–1906," September 10, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 72.
Paris. Musée Picasso. "Picasso 1901–1909: Chefs d'oeuvre du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," October 21, 1998–January 25, 1999, unnumbered cat. (fig. 26).
Tokyo. National Museum of Western Art. "Picasso's World of Children," March 14–June 18, 2000, no. 19.
Hannover. Kestnergesellschaft. "Picasso: Die Umarmung. Spanischen Pavillons der Expo 2000," August 29–September 30, 2000, no. 1.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "Picasso: Die Umarmung. Spanischen Pavillons der Expo 2000," October 3–December 10, 2000, no. 1.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920," February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 124.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat. (p. 248).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 27–August 1, 2010, no. 16.
Toronto. Art Gallery of Ontario. "Picasso: Painting the Blue Period," October 6, 2021–January 4, 2022, unnumbered cat. (p. 152).
Washington. Phillips Collection. "Picasso: Painting the Blue Period," February 26–June 12, 2022, unnumbered cat.
Maurice Raynal. Picasso. Munich, 1921, pl. 2.
Maurice Raynal. Picasso. Paris, 1922, pl. 2.
Dial 80 (May 1926), ill. opp. p. 357.
F[rancis]. H[enry] T[aylor]. "Modern French Paintings in the Museum." Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum 22, no. 4 (January 1932), p. 70.
Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 1, Works from 1895 to 1906. Paris, 1932, p. 54, no. 107, ill.
Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer. Picasso antes de Picasso. Barcelona, 1946, pl. 52.
Anthony Blunt and Phoebe Pool. Picasso, the Formative Years: A Study of His Sources. London, 1962, pp. 20, 31, fig. 107.
Helen Kay. Picasso's World of Children. New York, 1965, p. 48, ill.
Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille. Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900–1906. Greenwich, Conn., 1967, p. 195, no. VI.9, ill.
"2 Shoot a Museum Guard and Flee with 4 Paintings in Worcester." New York Times (May 19, 1972), pp. 1, 34, ill.
Pierre Cabanne. Le Siècle de Picasso, I: La Jeunesse, le cubisme, le théâtre, l'amour, 1881–1937. Paris, 1975, p. 117.
Josep Palau i Fabre. Picasso: The Early Years, 1881–1907. New York, 1981, pp. 277, 537, no. 698, ill.
Michael Brenson. "Met Museum Given Major Private Collection." New York Times (August 25, 1982), pp. A1, C18, ill.
Michael Leja. "'Le Vieux Marcheur' and 'Les Deux Risques': Picasso, Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Maternity, 1899–1907." Art History 8 (March 1985), p. 72.
Sylvia Hochfield. "Thoroughly Modern Met." Art News 86 (February 1987), p. 115.
Pierre Daix. Dictionnaire Picasso. Paris, 1995, pp. 9, 109, 361–62, 566, 588, 685, 808.
Julia May Boddewyn in Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, pp. 333, 344.
Magdalena Dabrowski inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 42–44, no. 16, ill. (color).
Shawn Digney-Peer inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, p. 45, fig. 16.2 (Infrared reflectogram).
Susan Behrends Frank inPicasso: Painting the Blue Period. Ed. Kenneth Brummel and Susan Behrends Frank. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Ontario, 2021, pp. 302–3, 322, ill. p. 152 (color).
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
ca. 1960
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