Self-Portrait

Inscription: Signed (lower left): Picasso

the artist (1900–29; sold ca. 1929 to Thannhauser); Justin K. Thannhauser, Berlin, Lucerne, Paris, and New York (1929–42; sold on October 24, 1942 to Sachs); Arthur Sachs and Marian François Poncet, Paris (1942–73; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, November 28, 1973, no. 15, sold to Cartwright); Constance B. and Carroll L. Cartwright, New York (1973–her d. 2014); Carroll L. Cartwright, New York (2014–d. 2019; his estate)

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Picasso," September 11–October 30, 1932, extended to November 13, 1932, no. 251 (for sale).

New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 15, 1939–January 7, 1940, no. 3 (lent by J. Thannhauser).

Art Institute of Chicago. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 1–March 5, 1940.

City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 16–April 14, 1940.

Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," April 26–May 25, 1940.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," June 25–July 22, 1940.

Cincinnati Art Museum. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," September 29–October 27.

Cleveland Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 7–December 8, 1940.

New Orleans. Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," December 20, 1940–January 17, 1941.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 1–March 2, 1941.

Pittsburgh. Carnegie Museum of Art. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 15–April 13, 1941.

Utica, N. Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 1–24, 1941.

Durham, N. C. Duke University. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 29–December 20, 1941.

Kansas City, Mo. William Rockhill-Nelson Art Gallery. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," January 24–February 14, 1942.

Milwaukee Art Institute. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," February 20–March 13, 1942.

Michigan. Grand Rapids Art Gallery. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," March 23–April 13, 1942.

Hanover, N. H. Dartmouth College. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," April 27–May 18, 1942.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Vassar College Art Gallery. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," May 20–June 15, 1942.

Wellesley, Mass. Wellesley College. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," September 27–October 18, 1942.

Sweet Briar, Va. Sweet Briar College. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," October 28–November 18, 1942.

Williamstown, Mass. Williams College. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," November 28–December 19, 1942.

Bloomington. Indiana University. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," January 1–22, 1943.

Alton, Ill. Monticello College. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," Febeuary 5–26, 1943.

Portland, Ore. Portland Art Museum. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," April 1–30, 1943.

San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "The Arthur Sachs Collection," September 1950–January 1951.

Paris. Musée Jacquemart-André. "Chefs d'oeuvres des collections françaises," July–September 1961.

New York. Pierpont Morgan Library. "New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900–1950," May 20–August 29, 1999, no. 14 (lent by Constance B. and Carroll L. Cartwright).

Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 1, Works from 1895 to 1906. Paris, 1932, p. 22, no. 49, ill., calls it "Portrait of the Artist".

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Picasso: Forty Years of His Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1939, p. 23, no. 3, ill.

Jean Cassou. Picasso. London, 1940, ill. p. 8, calls it "Portrait of the Artist".

Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Completa y veridíca historia de Picasso y el cubismo. Turin, 1945, pl. II, calls it "Portrait par lui-même".

Josep Palau i Fabre. Doble Assaig sobre Picasso. Barcelona, 1964, ill front cover.

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille. Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900–1906. Greenwich, Conn., 1967, p. 135, no. III. 14, ill.

Dorothy Seiberling, ed. "Special Double Issue: Picasso." Life 65 (December 27, 1968), p. 40, ill. (color).

André Fermigier. Picasso. Paris, 1969, pp. 17, 391, fig. 4.

Josep Palau i Fabre. Picasso por Picasso. Barcelona, 1970, pp. 48, 50, 161, no. 14, ill. p. 49, calls it "Autorretrato Novecentista (Primera Versión)".

Jean Leymarie. Picasso: The Artist of the Century. New York, 1972, p. 292, ill. p. 205 (artist's signature is not visible in the ill.), dates it 1901; locates it still in the Thannhauser collection, New York.

Stephen Longstreet, ed. Self-Portraits of Great Artists. Alhambra, Calif., 1973, ill. n.p.

Michel Strauss, ed. Impressionism & Modern Art: The Season at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1973–74. London, 1974, p. 56, ill.

Tom Wolfe. "The Painted Word." Harper's Magazine (April 1975), ill. p. 70.

Victoria Thorson, ed. Great Drawings of All Time: The Twentieth Century. New York, 1979, vol. 1, pl. 1 and ill. title page.

Geneviève Monnier in Great Drawings of All Time: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Victoria Thorson. Vol. 1, Redding, Conn., 1979, unpaginated, colorpl. 1 and ill. title page (color), dates it about 1900.

Grace Glueck. "Books of the Times." New York Times (August 3, 1981), p. C14.

John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully. A Life of Picasso. Vol. 1, 1881–1906. New York, 1991, ill. p. 185 (artist's signature is not visible in the ill.), dates it 1901.

Norman Mailer. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. New York, 1995, ill. pp. vii, 50, dates it 1901 and lists erroneous dimensions.

Kirk Varnedoe in Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation. Ed. William Rubin. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1996, pp. 117–18, ill., dates it 1901.

Marilyn McCully in New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900–1950. Exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, 1999, pp. 58–59, no. 14, ill. (color).