Woman in a Chemise marks a breakthrough in the style known as Synthetic Cubism, in which color, pattern, and texture enliven Cubist form. The painting represents a woman seated in a velvety purple armchair; her left arm is raised and her right hand holds a newspaper. Picasso included references to Fang and Baule sculptures from Gabon and the Ivory Coast, as well as to the sensuous imagery of the French neo-classical painter, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres. The painting’s visual rhyming of hair and fringe, nipples and pegs, feet and hooves has elicited strong reactions: some see it as a misogynist image, others as a parody of sexualized depictions of woman in both high and popular culture.
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Inscription: Signed, inscribed, and dated (verso, in black paint over white paint): PICASSO [underlined] / PARIS 1913
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, 1914; inv. no. 2099, photo no. 361; sold between July 3 and December 12, 1914 to Rosenberg]; Léonce Rosenberg, Paris (1914–18); [Galerie L’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris, 1918–24; inv. no. 5288, photo no. 86; sold on February 11, 1924, for Fr 19,500, to Reber]; Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lugano (1924–before 1932; [possibly a gift] by 1932 to Eichmann); Dr. Ingeborg Eichmann (later Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko-Eichmann), Zürich and elsewhere, by 1932–67; sold in April 1967 through Heinz Berggruen, Paris, to Ganz); Sally and Victor W. Ganz, New York (1967–his d. 1987); Sally Ganz, New York (1987–her d. 1997); their heirs, New York (1997; their sale, Christie’s, New York, November 10, 1997, no. 22, as "Femme assise dans un fauteuil [Eva]," autumn 1913, sold to Lauders); Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, New York (1997–2012; in December 2012 to Leonard A. Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (2012–13; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013–19; gift to MMA)
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Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Exposition Picasso," June 16–July 30, 1932, no. 89 (as "La femme aux seins dorés," 1913).
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Picasso Retrospective, 1901–1931," September 11–October 30, 1932, extended to November 13, 1932, no. 79 (as "Frau in Lehnstuhl," 1913, lent by Fräulein Ingeborg Eichmann, Arnau).
Brussels. Palais des Beaux-Arts. "Le nu dans l'art vivant," February–March 1934, no. 64 (as "La femme aux seins dorés").
London. New Burlington Galleries. "The International Surrealist Exhibition," June 11–July 4, 1936, no. 298 (as "The Woman with the Golden Breasts," 1914).
Paris. Petit Palais. "Les Maîtres de l'art indépendant, 1895–1937," June–October 1937, room 34, no. 12 (as "La Femme aux seins dorés").
Venice. Biennale. "XXV Biennale di Venezia," June 8–October 15, 1950, no. 35 (shown in Sala V, “Quattro maestri del Cubismo"; as 1913).
Kunsthalle Basel. "Phantastische Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts," August 30–October 5, 1952, no. 178 (as 1913).
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"King of the Cubists in London: Chamber of Horrors for the West End." Evening News (January 5, 1921), as "Lady in an Arm-chair".
"A Conundrum." Daily Mail (January 6, 1921), ill., as "Lady in an Armchair".
"Shell-shocked Art: Cubist Curiosities by a Grand Master. Jig-saw Puzzles." Daily News (January 6, 1921), as "a lady sitting in an armchair".
"£700 for Pictures Like This." Daily Graphic (January 7, 1921 (morning issue)), p. 6, ill., as "The Woman in the Armchair".
"The New Art Sensation." Daily Graphic (January 7, 1921), as "The Women [sic] in the Armchair".
"A Cubist Puzzle." Dispatch (January 7, 1921), ill., as "Lady Seated in an Armchair".
"The Week’s Art. Intellectual Exercises Outside Province of Painting. Pablo Picasso’s Pictures." Evening Standard (January 8, 1921), as "La Dame au fauteuil".
"The Inventor of Cubism." Glasgow Herald (January 8, 1921), as "La Dame au fauteuil," 1914.
"New Art for the New Year: The Freaks of Cubism at the Leicester Galleries." Graphic (January 8, 1921), ill.
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Maurice Raynal. Picasso. Paris, 1922, unpaginated (list of illustrations), ill. no. 47, as "Figure," 1914.
Bulletin de "L'Effort Moderne" no. 1 (January 1924), ill., as 1914.
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Will Grohmann. "Picasso." Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Unter Mitwirkung von etwas 400 Fachgelehrten. Ed. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 26, Leipzig, 1932, p. 577, as "Le femme aux seins dorés".
René Edouard-Joseph. Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains 1910–1930. Vol. 3, Paris, 1934, p. 134, as "La femme aux seins dorés," 1913.
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Herbert Read, ed. Surrealism. London, [1936], pl. 78, as "The Woman with the golden Breasts," 1914, in the Ingeborg Eichmann Collection.
André Breton. The International Surrealist Exhibition. Exh. cat., New Burlington Galleries. London, 1936, p. 26, no. 298.
V[iktor]. Nikodem. Pablo Picasso. Prague, 1936, no. 18, ill., as "Zena v lenosce" 1914.
Les maîtres de l'art indépendant, 1895–1937. Exh. cat., Petit Palais. Paris, 1937, p. 106, no. 12.
André Lhote. "Les Arts: Picasso." La Nouvelle Revue Française no. 306 (March 1, 1939), p. 531.
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Joan Merli. Picasso, el artista y la obra de nuestro tiempo. 2nd ed. (1st ed.,1942). Buenos Aires, 1948, p. 600, no. 220, ill., as 1914.
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André Breton. "C'est à vous de parler, jeune voyant des choses..." XXe siècle no. 3 (June 1952), p. 29, as 1915.
Phantastische Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel. Basel, 1952, p. 27, no. 178, ill.
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Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. New York, 1955, pp. 166, 169, 490, no. 127, ill. p. 380, as 1913; (French ed., pp. 174, 177, 490, no. 126, ill. p. 380 [as Femme assise dans un fauteuil]) (German ed., pp. 166, 169, 490, no. 126, ill. p. 380).
Maurice Jardot. Picasso: Peintures, 1900–1955. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1955, unpaginated, no. 40, ill.
Frank Elgar and Robert Maillard. Picasso: A Study of His Work. New York, 1956, pp. 83, 87, 267, ill. p. 280, as winter 1913.
José Camón Aznar. Picasso y el Cubismo. Madrid, 1956, pp. 144, 147, 722, fig. 86, as 1914.
Antonina Vallentin. Pablo Picasso. Paris, 1957, pp. 212–13, 449, ill. facing p. 208, pl. XIII, as 1913.
Alfred H. Barr Jr., ed. Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1957, ill. p. 45.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Der Weg zum Kubismus. Stuttgart, 1958, pp. 85, 128, ill. p. 78, as 1913.
Carl Zigrosser. Picasso: A Loan Exhibition of His Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints and Illustrated Books. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1958, p. 17, no. 71a, ill.
John Golding. "The History of Cubism, 1907–1914." PhD diss., Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1958, p. 198.
Umbro Apollonio. Fauves et cubistes. Paris, 1959, p. 93, ill. p. 61, as "Femme assise," 1913.
John Golding. Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914. New York, 1959, pp. 9, 125, pl. 20A.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts Honours Pablo Picasso. London, 1960, unpaginated, no. 72, as 1913.
Picasso. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1960, p. 31, no. 72, pl. 19b.
R. H. Wilenski and Roland Penrose. Picasso: Early Years. London, 1961, pp. 3, 12, ill. p. 13, pl. 5.
Pierre Cabanne. L'épopée du Cubisme. Paris, 1963, ill., as 1914.
Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé. Pablo Picasso. New York, 1964, pp. 29, 96, ill. p. 97, as 1913.
Pablo Picasso Exhibition: Japan, 1964. Exh. cat., National Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, 1964, pp. 48, 137, no. 27, ill.
Shinichi Segui. Pablo Picasso. Tokyo, 1964, unpaginated, pl. 12, as 1913.
André Breton. Le Surréalisme et la peinture. New and rev. ed. (1st ed., 1928). Paris, 1965, p. 6, ill., as "La Femme en chemise," 1914.
Hommage à Pablo Picasso. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1966, unpaginated, no. 90, ill.
François Mathey. L'arte moderna. Il Cubismo. Milan, 1967, p. 421, ill. p. 143, as 1913.
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André Breton. "'C'est à vous de parler, jeune voyant des choses...'." Perspective cavalière. Ed. Marguerite Bonnet. Paris, 1970, p. 17, as 1915.
Jean Leymarie. Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité. Geneva, 1971, p. 53, ill. p. 74, as 1913.
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Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino. L'opera completa di Picasso cubista. Milan, 1972, p. 117, no. 626, ill., unpaginated (list of plates), pl. XLVII, as "Donna in camicia seduta in poltrona," 1913.
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Roland Penrose and John Golding, ed. Picasso in Retrospect. New York, 1973, p. 276, no. 131, ill. p. 80 (color).
Sarane Alexandrian. Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste. Paris, 1973, p. 51, as "La Femme aux seins dorés," 1913.
Carol Duncan. "Virility and Domination in Early 20th-Century Vanguard Painting." Artforum 12, no. 4 (December 1973), pp. 31, 33, ill. p. 32, as "Woman Sitting in an Armchair," 1913.
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Franz Meyer inPicasso: Aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York, und Schweizer Sammlungen. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Basel, 1976, p. 72, ill. p. 70, as "Femme assise dans un fauteuil," 1914.
Pierre Cabanne. Pablo Picasso: His Life and Times. New York, 1977, p. 240, as 1913.
Françoise Cachin and Fiorella Minervino. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Picasso, 1907–1916. Paris, 1977, p. 117, no. 626, ill., unpaginated (list of plates), pl. XLVII, as 1913.
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Dawn Ades. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. [London], 1978, p. 26, no. 1.30, ill. p. 480.
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André Breton. Le Surréalisme et la peinture. Rev. ed. Paris, 1979, pp. 6–7, ill., as 1914.
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Werner Spies with Christine Piot. Pablo Picasso: Das Plastische Werk: Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen. Exh. cat., Nationalgalerie Berlin. Stuttgart, 1983, pp. 75, 407, ill., as "Frau in einem Sessel sitzend," autumn 1913.
Josep Palau i Fabre. Picasso. New York, 1985, unpaginated (list of illustrations), fig. 106, as autumn 1913.
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John Golding. Cubism: A History and an Analysis 1907–1914. 3rd rev. ed. (1st ed., 1959; 2nd ed. 1968). Cambridge, Mass., 1988, pp. 130, 220, pl. 30A, as "Femme en Chemise assise dans un Fauteuil," 1913.
Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé. Pablo Picasso. Concise ed. London, 1988, pp. 29–30, 78, ill. p. 79, as 1913.
Janet Hobhouse. The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century. London, 1988, pp. 109, 121, 128, pl. 99, as 1913.
David Cottington. "What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso's Collages of 1912." Art Journal 47 (Winter 1988), p. 353, as "Woman in an Armchair".
William Rubin, ed. Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, ill. p. 295, (German ed., 1990, p. 329, revised dating as [begun 1913–finished spring 1914], fig. 360; French ed., 1990, and Spanish ed., 1991, p. 328, revised dating as [begun late 1913–finished spring 1914], ill. p. 289).
Josep Palau i Fabre. Picasso: Cubism, 1907–1917. New York, 1990, pp. 346–50, 514, no. 994, ill. p. 349, as "Woman in a Shirt Sitting in an Armchair," autumn 1913.
John W. Erwin. Annunciations to Anyone: The Disclosure of Authority in Writing and Painting. New York, 1990, pp. 123, 128, pl. xxvi, as "Woman in a Chemise, Seated in an Armchair," 1913.
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Pierre Daix inPicassos Surrealismus: Werke, 1925–1937. Ed. Ulrich Weisner. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Bielefeld, Bonn, and Stuttgart, 1991, p. 193, fig. 1, as 1913.
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Pierre Daix with Alain Charron, ed. Picasso, la Provence & Jacqueline. Exh. cat., Espace Van Gogh. Arles, 1991, p. 86, ill.
John Golding inPicassos Surrealismus: Werke, 1925–1937. Ed. Ulrich Weisner. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Bielefeld, Bonn, and Stuttgart, 1991, pp. 175–76, fig. 4, as 1913.
Pepe Karmel. "Appendix 2: Notes on the Dating of Works." Picasso and Braque: A Symposium. Ed. Lynn Zelevansky. New York, 1992, p. 336, as (autumn 1913).
Carsten-Peter Warncke. Pablo Picasso, 1881–1973. Ed. Ingo F. Walther. Vol. 1, The Works 1890–1936. Cologne, 1992, ill. p. 227, as "Sitzende Frau im Hemd in einem Sessel".
Pierre Cabanne. Le siècle de Picasso. Vol. 1, La naissance du Cubisme (1881–1912). Rev. ed. (1st ed., 1975). Paris, 1992, ill. no. 27, as 1913.
Mark Roskill et al. "Braque's Papiers Collés and the Feminine Side to Cubism. Discussion." Picasso and Braque: A Symposium. Ed. Lynn Zelevansky. New York, 1992, pp. 253, 259, fig. 15, as (autumn 1913).
Pierre Cabanne. Le siècle de Picasso. Vol. 2, L'époque des métamorphoses (1912–1937). Rev. ed. (1st ed., 1975). Paris, 1992, pp. 430–31.
Joseph Low (Pepe) Karmel. "Picasso's Laboratory: The Role of his Drawings in the Development of Cubism, 1910–14." PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1993, pp. 279–96, 311, 430, fig. 234, as autumn 1913.
Christian Geelhaar. Picasso: Wegbereiter und Förderer seines Aufstiegs, 1899–1939. Zürich, 1993, ill. p. 186 (installed in the “Exposition Picasso,” Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1932).
Pierre Daix. Picasso: Life and Art. New York, 1993, pp. 83, 135–36, 138, 212, 222, 326, 367, 407 n. 4, p. 409 n. 6.
John Golding. Visions of the Modern. London, 1994, pp. 74, 220–22, 235, 254, 364, ill. p. 221, as 1913.
Hans Albert Peters inDie Sammlung Kahnweiler: Von Gris, Braque, Léger, und Klee bis Picasso. Ed. Hans Albert Peters. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Munich, 1994, p. 20, no. 33, ill. (color), as "Frau in einem Sessel," 1913.
Pierre Daix. Dictionnaire Picasso. Paris, 1995, pp. 355–56.
Norman Mailer. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. New York, 1995, pp. 350–51, pl. 47.
Michael C. FitzGerald. Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art. New York, 1995, pp. 49, 75–76, 199, 258, as 1913.
Alan Bowness. Modern European Art. New York, 1995, ill. p. 115, ill. no. 111, as 1913.
Elizabeth Cowling. "The Fine Art of Cutting: Picasso's 'Papiers Collés' and Constructions in 1912–14." Apollo 142 (November 1995), pp. 14, 18 n. 34, as autumn 1913.
John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully. A Life of Picasso. Vol. 2, 1907–1917. New York, 1996, pp. 285, 288–89, 299, ill. p. 284, as autumn 1913.
Pierre Daix inPicasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation. Ed. William Rubin. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1996, pp. 286–87, ill. p. 291.
André Fermigier. Picasso. New ed. Paris, 1996, pp. 106, 108, 396, no. 61, ill., as 1913.
Michael FitzGerald, ed. A Life of Collecting: Victor and Sally Ganz. New York, 1997, p. 233, ill. p. 9 (on display in the residence of Sally and Victor W. Ganz, New York, spring 1997).
Pepe Karmel et al. Picasso: Dessins et papiers collés, Céret, 1911–1913. Exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne de Céret. Céret, 1997, p. 21, fig. 4, as autumn 1913.
Carol Vogel. "Prized Picasso Leads the Ganz Collection to a Record Auction of $206 Million." New York Times (November 11, 1997), p. A24, as "Woman Seated in an Armchair (Eva)," 1913.
John Richardson. "Picasso: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture." A Life of Collecting: Victor and Sally Ganz. Ed. Michael FitzGerald. New York, 1997, pp. 60–62, ill. p. 63, as 1913.
Franz Meyer inEin Haus für den Kubismus–Die Sammlung Raoul La Roche: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris–Le Corbusier und Ozenfant. Ed. Katharina Schmidt and Hartwig Fischer. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, ill. p. 53, fig. 10, as autumn 1913.
Richard Martin. Cubism and Fashion. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1998, p. 92, ill. (color), as "Woman in an Armchair," 1913.
Franck Giraud. "The Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz." Christie's: Review of the Year 1997. Ed. Terence Rodrigues with Sylvie Ijsselstein. London, 1998, pp. 16, 19, ill. (color), as "Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)," 1913.
John Richardson. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper. New York, 1999, p. 29.
Brigitte Leal, Christine Piot, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. The Ultimate Picasso. New York, 2000, pp. 172, 510, fig. 385 (French ed., pp. 172–73, 510, fig. 385).
Werner Spies with Christine Piot. Picasso: The Sculptures. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000, pp. 91, 425, ill., as autumn 1913.
Elizabeth Cowling. Picasso: Style and Meaning. London, 2002, pp. 263, 265, 268, ill. no. 228, as 1913.
Pierre Cabanne. Matisse, Picasso: Des années cubistes aux années glorieuses. Paris, 2002, pp. 43, 101, as 1913.
Pavla Sadílková and Lada Hubatová-Vacková inVincenc Kramář: Un théorician et collectionneur du cubisme à Prague. Exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Paris, 2002, p. 236.
André Breton. Surrealism and Painting. (1st ed., Paris, 1928). Boston, 2002, pp. 6–7, ill., as 1914.
Pepe Karmel. Picasso and the Invention of Cubism. New Haven, 2003, pp. 93–94, 163, 178, 194, fig. 123, as autumn 1913.
Jack Flam. "Crossings." Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship. Cambridge, Mass., 2003, pp. 97–98, 187–88, 257, fig. 6.3, as "Woman in an Armchair (Eva)," 1913.
David Cottington. Cubism and Its Histories. Manchester and New York, 2004, p. 16.
Anne Baldassari inPicasso surreal = Picasso surréaliste = The Surrealist Picasso. Ed. Anne Baldassari. Exh. cat., Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Paris, 2005, pp. 29, 164, 245, fig. 148 (installed in “The International Surrealist Exhibition,” New Burlington Galleries, London, 1936).
Etienne-Alain Hubert inPicasso surreal = Picasso surréaliste = The Surrealist Picasso. Ed. Anne Baldassari. Exh. cat., Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Paris, 2005, pp. 206, 210, ill. p. 209, fig. 97, as "Woman in a Chemise Sitting in an Armchair," 1914.
Julia May Boddewyn in Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, p. 375.
Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, pp. 280, 386, pl. 145.
James Stourton. Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945. London, 2007, p. 151, as "Woman in an Armchair," 1913.
John Richardson in collaboration with Marilyn McCully. A Life of Picasso. Vol. 2, The Cubist Rebel, 1907–1916. New York, 2009, p. 407.
Tobia Bezzola. Picasso: His First Museum Exhibition, 1932. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. Munich, 2010, pp. 200, 223, Zürich no. 79, ill., listed in the catalogue for Exh. Zürich 1932 as "Frau in Lehnstuhl," 1913, lent by Fräulein Ingeborg Eichmann, Arnau.
Anne Umland. Picasso: Guitars, 1912–1914. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2011, p. 30, ill. p. 31, fig. 9 (installed in the exhibition “Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980).
Pierre Daix. Le nouveau dictionnaire Picasso. Paris, 2012, p. 350.
Pierre Daix. Braque avec Picasso: L'album de l'exposition. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 2013, p. 32.
Carol Vogel. "Billion-Dollar Cubist Gift to the Met." International Herald Tribune (April 11, 2013), p. 12, ill.
Carol Vogel. "$1 Billion Gift Gives Met a New Perspective (Cubist)." New York Times (April 10, 2013), p. A18, ill. p. A1, as "Woman in an Armchair (Eva)".
Jennifer Maloney. "The Secret behind Lauder's Gift." Wall Street Journal (May 24, 2013), p. D8, ill. (installed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), as "Woman in an Armchair (Eva)/Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)".
T. J. Clark. Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. Princeton, 2013, p. 183, fig. 4.32, as 1913.
"Objects Promised to the Museum during the Year 2012–2013." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, One Hundred Forty-third Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013 (2013), p. 47, as "Woman in an Armchair (Eva) [Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)]".
Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 233, 321(2)n.18.
Emily Braun inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 147–50, 153–55, 313(1)n.2, (2)nn.3, 7, 8, 10, 13, (3)nn.14, 15, (4)nn.24, 27, no. 72, ill. p. 148 (color).
Pepe Karmel inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, p. 192.
Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 294–96, figs. 72A (on display in the residence of Sally and Victor W. Ganz, New York, 1997), 72B (installation photo, Exh. Brussels 1934), 72C (in Ref. Bulletin de 'L'Effort Moderne' 1924).
"The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection: A Conversation with Emily Braun and Pepe Karmel." IFAR Journal 16, no. 3 (2015), pp. 33, 49, figs. 1 (color, as reproduced on the front page of the New York Times, April 13, 2013) and 27A (color).
Neil Cox in Christopher Green , with a contribution by Neil Cox. Cubism and War: The Crystal in the Flame. Exh. cat., Museu Picasso. Barcelona, 2016, pp. 76, 78.
Emilie Bouvard in Ortrud Westheider. Picasso: Fenster zur Welt. Ed. Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp. Exh. cat., Bucerius Kunst Forum. Hamburg, 2016, p. 31, fig. 4 (color), erroneously as in the MMA collection [see Provenance].
Charles Hindlip. An Auctioneer’s Lot. Triumphs and Disasters at Christie’s. London, 2016, p. 213, ill. p. 210 (color), as "Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)," 1913.
"Picasso's Cubism." Pablo Picasso: Femme assise, 1909. To be Included in "Impressionist & Modern Art: Evening Sale". June 21, 2016, ill. p. 25 (color), as "Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)".
Alan Hyman, ed. The Picasso Project: Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885–1973. Vol. 1913–1916, Synthetic Cubism. San Francisco, 2016, pp. xii, 390, 400, no. 1913-229, ill. frontispiece (color) and p. 83, as "Woman in a Chemise, Seated in an Armchair," 1913.
Brigitte Leal. "Cubism in Paris, 1953." The Cubism Seminars. Ed. Harry Cooper. Washington, D.C., 2017, p. 176.
Vérane Tasseau. "Lauder, Leonard A." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, p. 406, as "Femme en chemise".
Brigitte Leal. "Introduction." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, p. XVII, as 1913.
Elizabeth Cowling. "Penrose, sir Roland Algernon." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, p. 590.
Brigitte Leal. "Charles Ratton (galerie)." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, p. 153, as 1913.
Brigitte Leal. "Femme en chemise dans un fauteuil." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, pp. 285–86.
Brigitte Leal. "Picasso, Pablo." Dictionnaire du Cubisme. Ed. Brigitte Leal. Paris, 2018, p. 607, as autumn 1913.
Achim Borchardt-Hume and Nancy Ireson, ed. Picasso 1932—Love, Fame, Tragedy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2018, p. 50, ill. (installed in the Picasso retrospective, Galeries Georges Petit, 1932).
Silvia Loreti. Pablo Picasso. London, 2018, p. 14, fig. 31 (color), erroneously listed as in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Enrique Mallen. Pablo Picasso: The Interaction between Collectors and Exhibitions, 1899-1939. Brighton, Portland, and Toronto, 2018, pp. 52, 64, 261, no. 474, as "Femme en chemise assise dans un fauteuil".
Max Hollein. Modern and Contemporary Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2019, ill. p. 25 (color).
Philippe Dagen. "Picasso, le bonheur esthétique avec Eva." Le Monde (August 28, 2020), p. 20, ill. (color), calls it "Femme en chemise dans un fauteuil (Eva)" and dates it 1913.
Max Hollein inGifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary. Ed. Jennifer Bantz et al. New York, 2020, p. 8.
Lauren Rosati inGifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary. Ed. Jennifer Bantz et al. New York, 2020, pp. 121, 198, ill. (color).
Douglas Eklund, Marilyn F. Friedman, and Randall R. Griffey inMaking The Met, 1870–2020. Ed. Andrea Bayer with Laura D. Corey. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2020, pp. 170, 253, fig. 189 (color).
Anna Jozefacka. "27_Seated Couple." Dialogues with Picasso: 2020–2023 Collection. Málaga, 2020, p. .122 [Spanish ed., 2020, same pagination].
Pepe Karmel. "The Human Figure in Picasso’s Drawings, 1906–1913." Dialogues with Picasso: 2020–2023 Collection. Málaga, 2020, pp. 116–17, fig. 25 (color) [Spanish ed., 2020, same pagination].
Annie Cohen-Solal. Un Étranger nommé Picasso: Dossier de police, no. 74.664. Paris, 2021, pp. 128, 254, 256 (as Femme en chemise dans un fauteuil in a transcription of a letter from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to Vincenc Kramář Sergei Shchukin), 257 (as Femme en chemise dans un fauteuil, 1913, in a citation of a letter from Kahnweiler to Vincenc Kramář),
.
Angelica Villa. "Victor and Sally Ganz, Picasso Connoisseurs: 'A Brand That People Were Proud to Own'." artnews.com. April 14, 2021.
Brigitte Léal inBraque, 1906–1914: Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism. Ed. Susanne Gaensheimer and Susanne Meyer-Büser. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Düsseldorf, 2021, p. 91, as "Femme en chemise dans un fauteuil," 1913.
Pepe Karmel. Looking at Picasso. London, 2023, pp. 77, 171 n. 20, fig. 3.19 (color).
Marilyn McCully et al. inPicasso: 14 Sketchbooks. Exh. cat., Pace Gallery. New York, 2023, p. 34, call it "Woman in an Armchair".
Kathryn Calley Galitz. How to Read Portraits. New York, 2024, pp. 19, 26, 101, fig. 52 (color), ill. p. 14 (color detail).
Written on the verso (left of top stretcher bar, in blue crayon): [EICH]MANN [now obscured by label]; (center of top stretcher bar, in pencil): 29 [underlined]; ( right of top stretcher bar, in blue crayon): [illegible markings] [now obscured by label]; (center of right stretcher bar, in blue crayon): 79; (bottom of right stretcher bar, in pencil): 9 3; (top of left stretcher bar, in blue crayon): 89 [encircled] 6; (top of vertical stretcher crossbar, in pencil): 78; (bottom of vertical stretcher crossbar, in blue pencil): [?] 3
In his inaugural talk at The Met, scholar Neil Cox explores Picasso’s Sketchbook No. 26, which the artist kept until his death. Deciphering written notes and Cubist drawings, Cox reveals Picasso’s drawing processes and explores connections with his other sketchbooks, paintings, drawings, and sculptures from around 1913.
Leonard A. Lauder discusses his appreciation of the Cubist works of art he has collected. Leonard A. Lauder answers the question: "Which is your favorite picture?"
The ninth-annual Women and the Critical Eye program featuring a conversation between Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow, who discuss Leonard Lauder's criteria for collecting, including the importance of the "aesthetic wow," rarity, state of conservation, and attention to a work's curriculum vitae.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
ca. 1960
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