The American collector and publisher Scofield Thayer included this large sheet in an exhibition he mounted at the Montross Gallery in 1924. It provided the opportunity for American artists to see Picasso's most recent, neoclassical work soon after it was made.
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Inscription: Signed (lower left, in graphite): Picasso; dated (upper right, in graphite): 4-9-20-
[Paul Rosenberg, Paris, until 1922; sold by July 1922 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (by 1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1934–82, inv. 34.82; his bequest to MMA)
Munich. Moderne Galerie / Thannhauser. "Pablo Ruiz Picasso," May 9–June 1922, no. 44 (as "Gruppe von zwei nackten Frauen").
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. 36; as "Pencil Drawing").
Rochester, N. Y. Memorial Art Gallery. "The Dial Portfolio of "Living Art"," February–March 1924, no. 82.
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 32.
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 15, 1939–January 7, 1940, no. 152.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 1–March 5, 1940, no. 152.
City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 16–April 14, 1940, no. 152.
Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," April 26–May 25, 1940, no. 152.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," June 25–July 22, 1940, no. 152.
Cincinnati Art Museum. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," September 29–October 27, no. 152.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 7–December 8, 1940, no. 152.
New Orleans. Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," December 20, 1940–January 17, 1941, no. 152.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 1–March 2, 1941, no. 152.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting 1870–1940," February 22–March 16, 1941, no. 45.
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 15–April 13, 1941, no. 152.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 196.
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. 119.
Canberra. Australian National Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," March 1–April 27, 1986, unnumbered cat. (pp. 19–20).
Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," May 7–July 1, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld. "Picassos Klassizismus: Werke von 1914-1934," April 17–July 31, 1988, no. 27.
New York Studio School. "Image and Eye: The Art of Goya and Picasso," October 24–November 11, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," July 4–September 6, 1998, no. 56.
Nagoya City Art Museum. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," September 12–November 29, 1998, no. 56.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Picasso: Bathers," June 18–October 16, 2005, no. 20.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 27–August 1, 2010, no. 66.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection," July 3–October 7, 2018, no. 49.
Scofield Thayer. Living Art: Twenty Facsimile Reproductions after Paintings, Drawings and Engravings and Ten Photographs after Sculpture by Contemporary Artists. New York, 1923, drawings and engravings section, pl. 10, calls it "Pencil Drawing".
Thomas Craven. "Living Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 182, ill. after p. 202.
Henry McBride. "Modern Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 208.
[Elisabeth Luther Cary]. "The World of Art: Modern Art of One Kind and Another." New York Times (January 27, 1924), p. SM10.
Harley Perkins. "The Dial Collection of Living Art: Paintings, Water Colors and Engravings Assembled by Scofield Thayer and Exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum." Boston Evening Transcript (March 22, 1924), p. 8 [possibly this picture].
Forbes Watson. "Books. Living Art." Arts 5 (January 1924), p. 57.
Walter Pach. "Living Art." Freeman 8 (March 5, 1924), p. 621.
Herbert J. Seligmann. "Living Art for Americans." Nation 118 (April 9, 1924), p. 403.
R[obert]. R[attray]. T[atlock]. "Review: Living Art." Burlington Magazine 44 (March 1924), p. 153.
Ralph Flint. "More Modernism in New York." Christian Science Monitor 16, no. 57 (February 2, 1924), p. 11.
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Roger Fry. Transformations: Critical and Speculative Essays on Art. New York, 1926, p. 207, pl. 34A.
Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 4, Oeuvres de 1920 à 1922. Paris and New York, 1951, p. 60, no. 181, ill.
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, pp. xv, 137, 229, 236, ill.
Herschel B. Chipp and Alan Wofsy, ed. The Picasso Project: Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973. Vol. 2, Neoclassicism I, 1920–1921. San Francisco, 1995, pp. 124, 285, no. 20–397, ill.
Marilyn McCully inPablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form, Graphic Works, 1895-1972. Ed. Roland Doschka. Exh. cat., Stadthalle Balingen. Munich, 2000, p. 19, fig. 5.
Julia May Boddewyn in Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, pp. 333, 341, 352.
Gary Tinterow 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. 10.
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. 186–87, no. 66, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish 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. 186.
Sabine Rewald inObsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. New York, 2018, pp. 97, 100, 127, no. 49, ill. p. 110 (color).
Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler. "Reading Picasso in Munich and Prague in 1922." Umění / Art 70, no. 2 (2022), pp. 160, 177 nn. 32, 35, 37, p. 189, no. M44.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1921
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