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View source →Pablo Picasso, November 28, 1941 (recto); 1941 (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, and gouache, with touches of wiping (recto), and brush and gray wash, with touches of white-gray gouache and red wash (verso), on off-white white wove paper
Dimensions
40.8 × 30 cm (16 1/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1940s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Seated Woman (recto); Study (verso) as a Pablo Picasso pen and ink drawings, dated November 28, 1941 (recto); 1941 (verso), in Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, and gouache, with touches of wiping (recto), and brush and gray wash, with touches of white-gray gouache and red wash (verso), on off-white white wove paper. This catalog entry preserves the holding institution’s title and object metadata rather than inferring undocumented imagery, sitter identity, or artist intent.
Seated Woman (recto); Study (verso) is grouped under Wartime Period for gallery navigation using the date published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. This period label provides high-level art-historical orientation and does not supersede the primary collection record. The institutional credit line is: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro.
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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