This is the second in a pair of drawings executed on the same day at the fashionable resort of Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera (see also MMA 1984.433.277). The foreground figure is a quotation of Ingres's Grande Odalisque (1814, Musée du Louvre, Paris). The American publisher Scofield Thayer bought the drawings soon after they were made. As Thayer intended to illustrate works from his collection in his magazine, the Dial, he favored drawings and pastels over paintings, which were difficult to reproduce accurately.
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Inscription: Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: ¦Picasso¦ / 20 Dated and inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: 22-8-20- / (II)
[Paul Rosenberg, Paris, until 1923; sold on July 7, 1923 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1934–82, inv. 34.78; his bequest to MMA)
Munich. Moderne Galerie / Thannhauser. "Pablo Ruiz Picasso," May 9–June 1922, no. 45 (as "Gruppe von drei 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. 30; as "Pencil Drawing").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 31.
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting 1870–1940," February 22–March 16, 1941, no. 44.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 195.
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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Two: Twentieth-Century Art," June 4–September 2, 1985, no catalogue.
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. 28.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings: Additions to the Collection," May 23–September 29, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nudes: A Selection from the Bequest of Scofield Thayer," February 12–October 31, 1993, no catalogue.
West Palm Beach, Fla. Norton Gallery of Art. "Pablo Picasso: A Vision," March 2–April 3, 1994, no. 15.
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," July 4–September 6, 1998, no. 54.
Nagoya City Art Museum. "Pikaso ten: Kaikan 10-shunen kinen/Pablo Picasso: 10th Anniversary," September 12–November 29, 1998, no. 54.
Stadthalle Balingen. "Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses des Menschen; Arbeiten auf Papier, 1895–1972," June 20–September 24, 2000, no. 88.
Liège, Belgium. Salle Saint Georges. "Pablo Picasso," October 6, 2000–January 31, 2001, no. 73.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Picasso: Bathers," June 18–October 16, 2005, no. 17.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Picasso and the Theater," October 21, 2006–January 21, 2007, unnumbered cat. (p. 199).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 27–August 1, 2010, no. 65.
Houston. The Menil Collection. "Picasso The Line," September 16, 2016–January 8, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 83).
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. 47.
Kurt Pfister. "Pablo Picasso. Ausstellung in der Modernen Galerie Thannhauser—München." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 50 (August 1922), ill. p. 255, calls it "Frauen".
Marius de Zayas. "Picasso Speaks: A Statement by the Artist." Arts 3 (May 1923), p. 326, ill.
Dial 76 (June 1924), ill. after p. 492.
Sheldon Cheney. A Primer of Modern Art. New York, 1924, p. 25, ill.
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].
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Eugenio d'Ors. Pablo Picasso. Paris, 1930, p. 41, ill.
V[iktor]. Nikodem. Pablo Picasso. Prague, 1936, pl. 21.
Eugenio d'Ors. Pablo Picasso en tres revisiones. Madrid, [1946], fig. 16.
Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 4, Oeuvres de 1920 à 1922. Paris and New York, 1951, p. 34, no. 105, ill.
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, pp. xv, 137, ill.
Carsten-Peter Warncke. Pablo Picasso, 1881–1973. Ed. Ingo F. Walther. Vol. 1, The Works 1890–1936. Cologne, 1995, ill. p. 276, calls it "Three Bathers".
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. 84, 284, no. 20–271, ill.
Julia May Boddewyn in Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, pp. 333, 341.
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. 184–85, no. 65, 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. 185.
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. 99, 127, no. 47, ill. p. 108 (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. 179 n. 85, pp. 189–90, no. M45.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1921
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