Kneeling Woman Combing Her Hair

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Object Details

Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, b. Málaga, 1881–1973
Date
(1906)/cast by 1939
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
16 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (41.2 x 26 x 31 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Accession Number
72.234

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, to September 1939
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, from September 1939
Jeffrey H. Loria, New York, to 5 May 1970
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 5 May 1970-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," 15 November 1939-7 January 1940, no. 60 [lent by Chrysler]. Tour: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 1 February-3 March; CITY ART MUSEUM OF ST. LOUIS, Missouri, 16 March-14 April; INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, at the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 26 April-25 May.
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Richmond. "The First Comprehensive Exhibition of the Collections of Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," 17 January-3 March 1941, no. 154 (dated 1905). Tour: PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, 29 March-11 May.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Impressario: Ambroise Vollard," 9 June-7 September 1977. Tour: ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 24 October-4 December 1977; TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, 13 March-30 April 1978.
MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm. "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective," 15 October 1988-8 January 1989, no. 103, p. 238.
AUCKLAND CITY ART GALLERY, New Zealand. "Pablo Picasso: The Artist Before Nature," 22 September-12 November 1989, no. 12, p. 69, ill.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906," 30 March-27 July 1997, p. 51, colorpl. 171, p. 338, p. 365. Tour: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 10 September 1997-4 January 1998.
GETTY VILLA, Malibu, California. "Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique," 2 November 2011-16 January 2012. Tour: MUSEE PICASSO, Antibes, France, 1 February-20 May 2012.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Picasso Sculpture," 14 September 2015-7 February 2016, colorpl. 5, p. 49.

LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 116, 733, fig. 182, p. 137.
JOHNSON, UNA E. Ambroise Vollard, Editeur (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), p. 169, no. 229.
HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979), p. 16.

Signature
Signed On L Side LC: Picasso
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscription

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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