id: 135445 accession number: 1958.44 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.44 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:45.350000 Woman with a Cape, early 1901. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Oil on canvas; framed: 92.4 x 69.9 x 7.9 cm (36 3/8 x 27 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 73 x 50.2 cm (28 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.44 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Woman with a Cape title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1901 creation date earliest: 1901 creation date latest: 1901 current location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde creditline: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world. --- measurements: Framed: 92.4 x 69.9 x 7.9 cm (36 3/8 x 27 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 73 x 50.2 cm (28 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper left: "Picasso-" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: La Peinture Francaise dans les Collections Americaines opening date: 1966-05-13T04:00:00 La Peinture Francaise dans les Collections Americaines. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (May 13-September 15, 1966). title: Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona Around 1900 opening date: 1978-01-28T05:00:00 Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona Around 1900. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (January 28-March 26, 1978); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., DC (April 14-June 26, 1978). title: Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906 opening date: 1997-03-30T00:00:00 Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (March 30-July 27, 1997); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 10, 1997-January 4, 1998). title: Picasso opening date: 1998-07-04T00:00:00 Picasso. Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo (July 4-September 6, 1998); Nagoya City Art Museum (September 15-November 29, 1998). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Picasso/Lautrec opening date: 2017-10-17T04:00:00 Picasso/Lautrec. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (October 17, 2017-January 21, 2018). title: Picasso: Painting the Blue Period opening date: 2021-10-09T04:00:00 Picasso: Painting the Blue Period. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (October 9, 2021-January 5, 2022); The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (February 26-June 12, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Paris, France, 1919, sold to John Quinn, New York, NY) date: 1919 footnotes: citations: John Quinn [1870-1924], New York, NY date: 1919 footnotes: citations: (Demotte Collection, Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: Robert Lebel [1901-1986] Paris, France date: 1935-1937 footnotes: citations: (Reinhardt Gallery and Courvoisier Galleries, San Francisco, CA) date: 1937 footnotes: citations: Leonard C. Hannah, Jr. [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, date: 1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 195 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n219 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 241 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n261 Chipp, Herschel Browning, Alan Wofsy, and Fernand Mourlot. Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. San Francisco, CA: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 154, fig. 191-197 url: McCully, Marilyn, ed. and Natasha Elena Staller. Picasso--the Early Years, 1892-1906. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 159 url: Fukaya, Katsunori. Pikaso ten: kaikan 10-shūnen kinen = Pablo Picasso : 10th anniversary. Toyko, Japan: Chūnichi Shinbunsha, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 159 url: Serraller, Francisco Calvo and Paloma Alarcó. Picasso, Lautrec. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 93, cat. no. 17 url: "The Blue Room and Related Works." In Picasso: Painting the Blue Period. Kenneth Brummel, and Susan Behrends Frank, eds., 114-155. New York: DelMonico Books · D.A.P.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021. page number: Reproduced: P. 131 url: --- IMAGES