{"data":{"id":28067,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/28067","is_boosted":true,"title":"The Old Guitarist","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAwAFAPMAAC84OzA3NzU4NTI5Ois9TTdAQj9JRjhGTD9MSzxKTD5MT0BNS0VaYURaY1FnbgAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAADAAUAAAQL0DXQTiBLKDNQKhEAOw==","width":10727,"height":15979,"alt_text":"Painting, mostly in shades of blue, of a thin, bent, older man wearing ragged clothes and sitting cross-legged playing a guitar positioned upright in his lap."},"main_reference_number":"1926.253","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":90,"date_start":1903,"date_end":1904,"date_display":"late 1903\u2013early 1904","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Pablo Picasso\nSpanish, active France, 1881\u20131973","place_of_origin":"Spain","description":"<p>Pablo Picasso made <em>The Old Guitarist<\/em> while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, and emotional, psychological themes of human misery and alienation related to the work of such artists as Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. The elongated, angular figure of the blind musician also relates to Picasso's interest in Spanish art and, in particular, the great 16th-century artist El Greco. The image re\ufb02ects the twenty-two-year-old Picasso's personal struggle and sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden; he knew what it was like to be poor, having been nearly penniless during all of 1902.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This famous work is from Picasso\u2019s Blue Period (1901\u201304), a time the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette and flattened forms to convey the themes of misery and alienation. The elongated figure also reflects his interest in the great 16th-century Spanish artist El Greco. The 22-year-old Picasso had sympathy for the downtrodden; at the time, knew what it meant to be penniless.","dimensions":"122.9 \u00d7 82.6 cm (48 3\/8 \u00d7 32 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":82,"height":122,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on panel","inscriptions":"signed, l.r.: \"Picasso\"","credit_line":"Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Henri Guilbeaux, \u201cExposition Pablo Picasso (Vollard, rue Laffitte),\u201d Les Hommes du Jour 3, 155 (Jan. 7, 1911), n.pag., as \u201cvieux musicien.\u201d\n\nHarriett C. Bryant, Third Exhibition of Contemporary French Art (Carroll Galleries, 1915), n.pag., cat. 3, as The Guitarrist [sic].\n\n\u201cWhat is Happening in the World of Art,\u201d Sun, Mar. 14, 1915, sec. 3, p. 2 (ill.), as The Guitarist.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 48 (1926), p. 56 (ill.), as The Guitarist.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 36\u201337 (ill.), 57, as Le Guitariste.\n\nJohn Quinn, John Quinn, 1870\u20131925: Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture (Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926), pp. 12, 96 (ill.), as The Guitarist\u2014Blue Period.\n\nR. M. F., \u201cC\u00e9zanne, Rousseau, Picasso,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20, 5 (May 1926), p. 64 (ill.), as \u201cThe Guitarist.\u201d\n\nR. M. F., \u201cHelen Birch-Bartlett Memorial Collection Now Installed,\u201d Art News 24, 31 (May 8, 1926), p. 2, as \u201cThe Guitarist.\u201d\n\nForbes Watson, \u201cA Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,\u201d Arts 9 (June 1926), pp. 307 (ill.), 312, as The Guitarist.\n\nChristian Zervos, \u201cPicasso: \u0152uvres In\u00e9dites Anciennes,\u201d Cahiers d\u2019Art 3, 5\u20136 (1928), p. 213 (ill.).\n\nMorton Dauwen Zabel, \u201cAn American Gallery of Modern Painting,\u201d Art and Archaeology 26, 6 (Dec. 1928), pp. 233 (ill.), 235, as Le Guitariste.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1930), n.pag., cat. 6, as Le Guitariste, about 1910.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cConsider Picasso,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 25, 5 (May 1931), pp. 68, 69 (ill.), as Guitar Player, about 1905.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 167, as The Guitarist.\n\nChristian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, \u0152uvres de 1895 a 1906 (Cahiers d\u2019Art, 1932), p. XXXIV; pl. 90, no. 202; n.pag., no. 202, as Le Vieux Guitariste, Barcelone, 1903.\n\nChristian Zervos, \u201cPicasso,\u201d Cahiers d\u2019Art 7, 3\u20135 (1932), p. 91 (ill.), as Le vieux guitariste, 1903.\n\nJames Johnson Sweeney, \u201cLa Peinture Fran\u00e7aise Moderne a l\u2019Institut des Beaux-Arts de Chicago,\u201d Cahiers d\u2019Art 7, 8\u201310 (1932), pp. 335 (ill.), 336, as le Guitariste.\n\nWalter J. Sherwood, \u201cThe Famous Birch Bartlett Collection,\u201d Chicago Visitor (Oct. 1932), pp. 17, 40, as \u201cThe Guitarist.\u201d\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 56, cat. 402, as The Guitarist, 1903.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p. 53, cat. 358, as The Guitarist, 1903.\n\nWadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, exh. cat. (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1934), n.pag., cat. 11 (ill.), as Vieux Guitariste, 1903.\n\nFrancis Henry Taylor, \u201cAfrican Baroque in Hartford,\u201d Parnassus 6, 3 (Mar. 1934), p. 11 (ill.), as The Guitarist.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 30, as The Guitarist.\n\nJacques Seligmann and Company, Picasso: \u201cBlue\u201d and \u201cRose\u201d Periods, 1901\u20131906, exh. cat. (Jacques Seligmann and Company, 1936), pp. 9; 17, cat. 15; pl. 15, as The Old Guitar Player (The Guitarist), Barcelona, 1903.\n\nJames W. Lane, \u201cPicasso: The Spanish Charivari,\u201d Parnassus 8, 6 (Nov. 1936), p. 17, as The Blind Guitarist.\n\nAlfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1939), pp. 34\u201335, cat. 20 (ill.); 194, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nAlfred M. Frankfurter, \u201cPicasso in Retrospect: 1939\u20131900, The Comprehensive Exhibition in New York and Chicago,\u201d Art News 38, 7 (Nov. 18, 1939), pp. 12 (ill.), 26.\n\nJames Thrall Soby, \u201cPicasso: A Critical Estimate,\u201d Parnassus 11, 8 (Dec. 1939), p. 9.\n\nHelen F. Mackenzie, Understanding Picasso: A Study of His Styles and Development (University of Chicago Press, 1940), pl. II, as \u201cThe Old Guitarist,\u201d 1903.\n\nReginald Howard Wilenski, Modern French Painters (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1940), pl. 47; pp. 138; 168; 199; 202, as Le vieux guitariste, 1903.\n\nHelen F. Mackenzie, \u201cUnderstanding Picasso\u2014A Study of His Styles and Development,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 34, 2 (Feb. 1940), p. 26, as The Guitarist.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cPicasso\u2014Forty Years of His Art,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 34, 2 (Feb. 1940), p. 22, as The Guitarist.\n\nRegina Schoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, The Enjoyment of Art in America (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942), p. 565; pl. 579, as Guitar Player.\n\nCeferino Palencia, Picasso (Editorial Leyenda, 1945), fig. 7; pp. 118\u201319; 131, as El ciego guitarrista and El Guitarrista ciego, Barcelona, 1903. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), pp. 38, 39 (ill.), 59, 63, as The Guitarist, 1903.\n\nAlfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (Museum of Modern Art, 1946), pp. 28 (ill.), 29, 254, 280, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nAlexandre Cirici Pellicer, Picasso antes de Picasso (Iberia-Joaquin Gil, 1946), pp. 183\u201385; fig. 170, as Viejo guitarrista, 1903.\n\nJoan Merli, Picasso: el artista y la obra de nuestro tiempo, 2nd ed. (Editorial Poseidon, 1948), pp. 29; fig. 83; 598, as Guitarrista ciego, and El viejo guitarrista, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nDenys Sutton, Picasso: Blue and Pink Periods (Lindsay Drummond\/\u00c9ditions du Ch\u00eane, 1948), n.pag., as Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nPer-Olav Zennstr\u00f6m, Pablo Picasso (P. A. Norstedt and S\u00f6ners F\u00f6rlag, 1948), fig. 4; pp. 28; 259, as Den gamle gitarrspelaren, 1903.\n\nJuan Antonio Gaya Nu\u00f1o, Picasso (Ediciones Omega, 1950), pp. 12; 33, no. 9; pl. 9, as El viejo guitarrista, 1903.\n\nAnthony Bertram, Picasso, The World\u2019s Masters\u2014New Series (Studio Publications, 1951), pl. 4, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nWilliam S. Lieberman, Pablo Picasso (Harry N. Abrams, 1952), pp. 10\u201311 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nWilliam S. Lieberman, Pablo Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods (Harry N. Abrams, 1954), pl. 18, as The Old Guitarist, 1903. \n\nDenys Sutton, Picasso: peintures \u00e9poques bleue et rose (Les \u00c9ditions du Ch\u00eane, 1955), n.pag., as Vieux Guitariste, 1903.\n\nAntonina Vallentin, Pablo Picasso (\u00c9ditions Albin Michel, 1957), p. 88, 93, as le Vieux Guitariste.\n\nRoland Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work (Victor Gollancz, 1958), pp. 10; 90; 92; 106\u201307; pl. III, no. 6, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nPierre de Champris, Picasso ombre et soleil (Librairie Gallimard, 1960), pp. 267\u201368, no. 311 (ill.); 294, as Le guitariste aveugle, 1903.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 356, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nAnthony Blunt and Phoebe Pool, Picasso, the Formative Years: A Study of His Sources (New York Graphic Society, 1962), p. 31, no. 111; fig. 111, as Blind Guitar-Player, 1903.\n\nH. W. Janson, History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day (Harry N. Abrams, 1962), pp. 509, fig. 765; 510, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJohn Ferguson, \u201cPicasso and the Classics,\u201d Greece and Rome, 2nd series, 9, 2 (Oct. 1962), p. 184.\n\nGeorges Boudaille, Picasso: Premi\u00e8re \u00e9poque 1881\u20131906, p\u00e9riodes bleue et rose (Mus\u00e9e Personnel, 1964), pp. 13; 14; 16; pl. IV, as Le Vieux Guitariste, 1903.\n\nJacques Damase, Pablo Picasso, trans. Haydn Barnes (Barnes and Noble, 1965), pp. 6, 23 (ill.), 86, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nPierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900\u20131906: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l'\u0153uvre peint (Editions Ides et Calendes, 1966), pp. 62; 63 (ill.); 64\u201366; 229, cat. IX. 34 (ill.), as Le Vieux Guitariste, Barcelone, 1903.\n\nJosep Palau i Fabre, Picasso en Catalu\u00f1a (Ediciones Pol\u00edgrafa, 1966), pp. 104\u201305, fig. 92; 106; 109; 113; 116; 125; 242\u201343, as El viejo guitarrista; The old guitarrist [sic.]; Le vieux guitariste; Der alte Gitarrenspieler; Gitarrenspielers, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (Sept. 1966), pp. 194, fig. 13; 195; 197, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Instituto de arte de Chicago: Presentaci\u00f3n de Charles C. Cunningham, El Mundo de los museos (Editorial Codex, S. A., 1967), pp. 14, ill. 62; 25; 72\u201373 (ill.), as El viejo guitarrista.\n\nGeorge Heard Hamilton, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880 to 1940 (Penguin Books, 1967), p. 88, as The Blind Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRoland Penrose, The Eye of Picasso (New American Library, 1967), p. 8; pl. 4, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nLael Wertenbaker, The World of Picasso, 1881\u2013 (Time-Life Books, 1967), pp. 34, 44 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), pp. 14\u201315, cat. 7 (ill.); 112, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nThomas Greer, A Brief History of Western Man (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), pp. 556; 557, fig. 13-2, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nB. L. Reid, The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends (Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 207\u201308, as Old Man.\n\nDenys Sutton and Paolo Lecaldano, The Complete Paintings of Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods, Classics of the World\u2019s Great Art, ed. Paolo Lecaldano (Harry N. Abrams, 1968), pp. 16; pl. XV; 94 (ill.); 95, cat. 92; 114; 119, as The Old Blind Guitar Player and Le vieux guitariste.\n\nMahonri Sharp Young, \u201cLetter from U.S.A.: Let\u2019s Talk Turkey,\u201d Apollo 87, 75 (May 1968), p. 390, fig. 8, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nDenys Chevalier, Picasso, \u00e9poques bleue et rose (Flammarion, 1969), pp. 17 (ill.), 62, 96, as Le Vieux guitariste, 1903.\n\nPicasso, Sekai no meiga [Famous Paintings in the World], 7 (Holp Shuppan, 1970), n.pag. (ill.), as Git\u0101-hiki no r\u014djin [The Old Guitarist].\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Harry N. Abrams, 1970), pp. 12, 109 (ill.), 284, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nHoward Greenfeld, Pablo Picasso: An Introduction (Follett Publishing Company, 1971), pp. 33 (ill.), 61, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nSandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 86.\n\nOtsur\u014d Sakazaki, Pikaso, Gendai sekai bijutsu zensh\u016b [Picasso, Modern Art of the World], 14\/Picasso, L\u2019art moderne du monde, 14, eds. Ry\u016bzabur\u014d Umehara, Tetsuz\u014d, and S\u014dichi Tominaga (Shueisha, 1972), pl. 9; pp. 85; 114 (ill.); n.pag. as Toshi oita git\u0101-hiki [Old Guitarist]\/Le vieux guitariste, 1903.\n\nIleana \u0218oldea, Picasso (Editura Meridiane, 1972), p. 59; fig. 7 as B\u0103tr\u00eenul ghitarist, 1903.\n\nDiane Monk, \u201c\u2018Meet me at the Picasso\u2019: Artistic Landmark for All Chicagoans,\u201d Chicago Daily News (Apr. 9, 1973), p. 4.\n\nToshio Nishimura, ed., Picasso, Les Grands ma\u00eetres de la peinture moderne 17\/Pikaso, Sekai no meiga 17 [Picasso, Masterpieces of the World 17] (Japan Art Center, 1973), pl. 22; p. 115, no. 22 (ill.), as Oita git\u0101-hiki [Old Guitarist]\/Le vieux guitariste, 1903.\n\nY\u016bsuke Nakahara, ed., Pikaso to Machisu: rittaiha to yaj\u016bha, Gurando sekai bijutsu [Picasso and Matisse: Cubism and Fauvism, Grand Collection of World Art], 23 (K\u014ddansha, 1974), pl. 3, as Git\u0101-hiki no r\u014djin [The Old Guitarist], 1903.\n\nDomenico Porzio and Marco Valsecchi, Understanding Picasso (Newsweek Books, 1974), pl. 12, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRonald W. Johnson, \u201cPicasso\u2019s \u2018Old Guitarist\u2019 and the Symbolist Sensibility,\u201d Artforum 13, 4 (Dec. 1974), pp. 56, fig. 1; 57\u201362, as Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nTimothy Hilton, Picasso (Thames and Hudson, 1975), pp. 35, fig. 19; 277, as The Blind Guitarist and The Blind Guitarist (The Old Guitarist), Barcelona, 1903.\n\nEunice Lipton, Picasso Criticism, 1901\u20131939: The Making of an Artist-Hero, Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1975, p. 191, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nFelix Andreas Baumann, Pablo Picasso: Leben und Werk (Gerd Hatje, 1976), p. 22, fig. 29, as Der alte Gitarrist, 1903.\n\nRon Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso, 1901\u20131914 (Garland Publishing, 1976), pp. 21\u201322; 201, fig. 25, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nVivian Endicott Barnett, The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), p. 132, as Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJanice J. Feldstein and Maureen Smith, eds., The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), pp. 20; 131, fig. 82, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJudith Zilczer, \u201cThe Noble Buyer:\u201d John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat. (Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1978), pp. 32; 33, fig. 10; 176, as The Old Guitarist and Blind Guitarist, 1903.\n\nDavid A. Lauer, Design Basics (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), pp. 80\u201381, fig. c, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMary Matthews Gedo, Picasso: Art as Autobiography (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 54 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJosep Palau i Fabre, Picasso vivent (1881\u20131907) (Ediciones Pol\u00edgrafa, 1980), pp. 358, fig. 932; 361; 377; 542, cat. 932, as El vell guitarrista, Barcelona, 1903 and Vell guitarrista.\n\nJane Fluegel, \u201cChronology,\u201d Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, exh. cat. ed. William Rubin (Museum of Modern Art, 1980), p. 47 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, Autumn 1903.\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 15; 62, no. 3C10; microfiche 3, no. C10 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRonald Christ, \u201cPicasso\u2019s Hands: The Mutability of Human Form,\u201d Artscanada, 236\/237 (Sept.\/Oct. 1980), pp. 21, 25, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMark Rosenthal, \u201cThe Nietzschean Character of Picasso\u2019s Early Development,\u201d Arts Magazine 55, 2 (October 1980), pp. 87, fig. 1; 91, n. 9, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nLydia Gasman, Mystery, Magic, and Love in Picasso, 1925\u20131938: Picasso and the Surrealist Poets, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1981, p. 1335.\n\nFederico Sope\u00f1a Iba\u00f1ez, Picasso y la m\u00fasica (Ministerio de Cultura, 1982), pp. 22; 27, n. 9; 29 (ill.); 43; 132; 164, no. 26, as El ciego guitarrista and El viejo guitarrista, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nFrancisco Ugarte and Michael Ugarte, Espa\u00f1a y su Civilizaci\u00f3n, 3rd ed. (Random House, 1983), pp. 186, 187 (ill.), as El guitarrista viejo.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cFront Matter\u201d and \u201cThe Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), n.pag. (ill.); p. 223, no. 19, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cThe Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 105, 111, as Old Guitarist and The Old Guitarist.\n\nCourtney Graham Donnell, \u201cFrederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett: The Collectors,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), p. 95, fig. 11, as Old Guitarist.\n\nMary Mathews Gedo, \u201cA Youthful Genius Confronts His Destiny: Picasso\u2019s Old Guitarist in \nthe Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 152, fig. 1; 153; 155\u201356; 158\u201359, figs. 7\u20138; 161\u201365, as Old Guitarist and The Old Guitarist, 1903\/04.\n\nLois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art (Prentice-Hall, 1986), p. 356, fig. 13-5, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nPierre Daix, Picasso cr\u00e9ateur: La vie intime et l\u2019\u0153uvre (\u00c9ditions du Seuil, 1987), p. 48, as le Vieux Guitariste.\n\nPaul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher, The Art of Seeing (Prentice-Hall, 1988), pp. 142\u201343; 144\u201345, fig. 2.109; 413, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nDidier Imbert Fine Art, Picasso: La C\u00e9lestine, exh. cat. (Didier Imbert Fine Art, 1988), pp. 36 (ill.), 67, as Le Vieux guitariste\/The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJames N. Wood and Katherine C. Lee, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), p. 108 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/04.\n\nAuckland City Art Gallery, Pablo Picasso: The Artist Before Nature, exh. cat. (Auckland City Art Gallery, 1989), p. 41.\n\nPatricia Leighten, Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897\u20131914 (Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. 34; fig. 21, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nAnatoli\u012d Podoksik, Pikasso, vechnyi poisk: proizvedeniia khudozhnika iz muzeev Sovetskofo Soiuza [Picasso: The Artist's Works in Soviet Museums] (Avrora, 1989), pp. 36; 39 (ill.); 153; 154, fig. 83, as Staryi Gitarist and Starym Gitaristom [The Old Guitarist], 1903.\n\nPrentice Hall Literature: World Masterpieces (Prentice Hall, 1991), p. 1142 (ill.).\n\nJohn Beardsley, Pablo Picasso, First Impressions (Harry N. Abrams, 1991), pp. 23 (ill.), 90, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nGiorgio Cortenova, Picasso: la vita e l\u2019opera (Idealibri, 1991), p. 74 (ill.), as Il vecchio chitarrista, Barcellona, 1903. \n\nJack Hobbs and Richard Salome, The Visual Experience (Davis, 1991), pp. 69, fig. 6-30; 292, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJohn Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, 1881\u20131906 (Random House, 1991), pp. 277, 278 (ill.), 292, 541, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nMarie-Laure Bernadac, Brigitte L\u00e9al, and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Seckel, Picasso (ODA, Laser Edition, 1992), p. 15, no. 6432; [laser disc] n.pag. (ills.), as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903.\n\nLaura H. Chapman, A World of Images (Davis Publications, 1992), p. 48 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nCarsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso, 1881\u20131973, Tome I, Les \u0153uvres de 1890 \u00e0 1936 (Benedikt Taschen, 1992), p. 94 (ill.), as Le Vieux Guitariste aveugle, Barcelone, automne 1903.\n\nSimon Miller, \u201cInstruments of Desire: Musical Morphology in the Early Work of Picasso,\u201d The Musical Quarterly 76, 4 (Winter 1992), pp. 447; 448, fig. 1, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nHiro Clark, ed., Picasso: In His Words (Collins Publishers, 1993), pp. 45 (ill.), 94, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nChristian Geelhaar, Picasso: Wegbereiter und F\u00f6rderer seines Aufstiegs 1899\u20131939 (Palladion, 1993), pp. 205\u201306, fig. 230, as Le vieux guitariste, 1903. \n\nGlen MacLeod, Wallace Stevens and Modern Art: From the Armory Show to Abstract Expressionism (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 64, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMarilyn McCully, Picasso: A Private Collection (Cacklegoose Press, 1993), p. 30 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRichard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), pp. 192; 304, n. 7, as The Old Guitar Player.\n\nJames N. Wood, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago (Abbeville Press, 1993), pp. 15, 178, 186 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n  \nLaurie Schneider Adams, A History of Western Art (Harry N. Abrams, 1994), pp. 412, fig. 26.1; 422, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJoan Jasper, Identifiable Fragments: Comparisons Between Picasso and Gertrude Stein, 1905\u20131907, Master\u2019s Thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994, Chapter 1, [p. 5]; fig. 6, as The Blue Guitarist and Blue Guitarist, 1903.\n\nDuane Preble and Sarah Preble, Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, 5th ed. (Harper Collins College Publishers, 1994), pp. 80, fig. 119; 82, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nDavid F. Setford, Pablo Picasso: A Vision, exh. cat. (Norton Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 12, fig. 3; 13; 54, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nSandra Kraskin and Glen MacLeod, Painting in Poetry, Poetry in Painting: Wallace Stevens and Modern Art, exh. cat. (Sidney Mishkin Gallery, 1995), pp. 14 (ill.), 15, 18, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nRichard Lewis and Susan Lewis, The Power of Art (Harcourt Brace, 1995), p. 373, fig. 15-10, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nLaurie Schneider Adams, The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction (HarperCollins, 1996), p. 23; pl. 3, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJosep Palau i Fabre, Pablo Picasso: Academic and Anti-Academic (1895\u20131900), exh. cat. (Yoshii Gallery, 1996), p. 144, as The Blind Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJohn Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. II, 1907\u20131917 (Random House, 1996), pp. 363; 472, n. 20, as Z.I. 202.\n\nJames N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 12 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Pocketguide (Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 38, fig. 66, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMarilyn McCully, \u201cChronology,\u201d in Picasso: The Early Years, 1892\u20131906, exh. cat. ed. Marilyn McCully (National Gallery of Art, 1997), pp. 40, fig. 26; 41, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903. \n\nJeffrey Weiss, \u201cBohemian Nostalgia: Picasso in Villon\u2019s Paris,\u201d in Picasso: The Early Years, 1892\u20131906, exh. cat. ed. Marilyn McCully (National Gallery of Art, 1997), p. 200, as the Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nAndrew Wilton, \u201cSymbolism in Britain,\u201d in The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860\u20131910, exh. cat. eds. Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone (Flammarion, 1997), p. 33, fig. 17, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nBeverly Mayne Kienzle and Teresa M\u00e9ndez-Faith, Panoramas literarios Espa\u00f1a (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), p. 316 (ill.), as El guitarrista.\n\nIngrid Schaffner, The Essential Pablo Picasso, The Essential Series (Harry N. Abrams, 1998), pp. 34, 41 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMartin E. P. Seligman and David L. Rosenhan, Abnormality (W. W. Norton and Company, 1998), p. 226 (ill.).\n\nLaurie Schneider Adams, Art Across Time, vol. II (McGraw-Hill, 1999), pp. 819, fig. 25.1; 834 (ill.); 835.\n\nSilke Immenga, Picasso und Spanien: Kulturelle Identit\u00e4t als Strategie (Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 60; 306, fig. 38; 339, as Der Gitarrenspieler, 1903; Der Gitarrist.\n\nMeyer Schapiro, The Unity of Picasso\u2019s Art (George Braziller, 2000), p. 11, fig. 15, as The Old Guitarist, autumn 1903.\n\nJames N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago (Hudson Hills Press, 2000), p. 231 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/1904.\n\nBonnie Rimer, \u201cThe Art Institute of Chicago: The Old Guitarist Meets New Technology,\u201d Picasso: The Artist\u2019s Studio (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001), http:\/\/www.clevelandart.org\/exhibcef\/picassoas\/html\/7327426.html (accessed Aug. 2012), no fig. no. (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nLilli F. Colton, The Art of Medicine (Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center, 2002), pp. 13, 54 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903-1904.\n\nRobert Hughes, The Portable Picasso (Universe, 2003), pp. 54 (ill.), 425, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nSandra Benadretti Pellard, Regards complices, hommage \u00e0 Picasso\/Sharing Views, Tribute to Picasso, exh. cat. (Somogy, 2003), pp. 59 (ill.), 90, as Le Vieux Guitariste, 1903; The old guitarist, 1903.\n\nLaurie Schneider Adams, A History of Western Art, 4th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2004), pp. 467, fig. 26.1; 477 (ill.); 478 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMichael FitzGerald, \u201cColecciones Permanentes e historias ef\u00edmeras: una breve cr\u00f3nica de la acogida de la obra de Picasso en Norteam\u00e9rica\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Embrace of Picasso: Permanent Collections and Ephemeral Histories,\u201d in Fundaci\u00f3n Marcelino Bot\u00edn, La \u00e9poca de Picasso: donaciones a los museos americanos, exh. cat. (Fundaci\u00f3n Marcelino Bot\u00edn, 2004), pp. 41, 246, as El viejo guitarrista, 1903; The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nMichael FitzGerald, \u201cL\u2019abbraccio americano a Picasso: collezioni permanenti e vicende effimere\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Embrace of Picasso: Permanent Collections and Ephemeral Histories,\u201d in Pepe Karmel, Picasso e la sua epoca: Donazioni a Musei Americani, exh. cat. (Skira, 2004), pp. 31, 175, as Il vecchio chitarrista, 1903; The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nJeff Lyon, \u201cIn the Loop: Need to Know: Q: Is It True a Picasso Painting at the Art Institute Conceals a 2nd Work?\u201d Chicago Tribune Magazine (June 5, 2005), p. 12 (ill.).\n\nJulia May Boddewyn, \u201cSelected Chronology of Exhibitions, Auctions, and Magazine Reproductions, 1910\u20131957,\u201d in Michael FitzGerald, Picasso and American Art, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art\/Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 329, 334, 336, 339\u201340, 342, 344, 350.\n\nMichael FitzGerald, \u201cChapter Two (1914\u20131929),\u201d in Picasso and American Art, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art\/Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 69; 70, fig. 25; 104, as The Old Guitarist, 1903.\n\nAsher Ethan Miller, \u201c148. Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist,\u201d in C\u00e9zanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat. ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), p. 388, cat. 148 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/4.\n\nGary Tinterow with research by Asher Ethan Miller, \u201cVollard and Picasso,\u201d in C\u00e9zanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat. ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), pp. 107, fig. 113; 112, as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/4; Old Guitarist.\n\nAgnes Husslein-Arco and Alfred Weidinger, Kokoschka: tr\u00e4umender Knabe, enfant terrible (Bibliotek der Provinz, 2008), pp. 146, fig. 83; 148, as Der alte Gitarrenspieler, 1903; Gitarrenspieler.\n\nJ. R. Leibowitz, Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. 55; 56, pl. 6; 61, as The Old Guitarist, 1903\u20134.\n\nP. I. Maltbie, Picasso and Minou (Charlesbridge, 2008), n.pag. (ills.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/04.\n\nMarilyn McCully, \u201cPicasso Symboliste,\u201d in Marilyn McCully, Picasso in Paris 1900-1907: Eating Fire, exh. cat. ed. Michael Raeburn (Van Gogh Museum\/Museu Picasso, 2011), pp. 127; 129, fig. 32, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903\u20134.\n\nThe Picasso Project, Picasso\u2019s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885\u20131973, vol. 23, The Blue Period, 1902\u20131904, Barcelona and Paris (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2011), pp. xii; xxii; 135, cat. 1903\u2013106 (ill.); 235; 243, as The Old Guitarist\/Le vieux guitariste, Autumn, 1903.\n\nJack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, 1941\u20131991, vol. 1, Essays and References (Yale, 2012), pp. 154\u201355, fig. 151, as The Old Guitarist, 1903-4.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cRevealing Picasso Conservation Project,\u201d n.d.,  http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/collections\/conservation\/revealing-picasso-conservation-project (accessed Aug. 2012), no fig. no. (ill), as The OId Guitarist, Barcelona, late 1903\u2013probably early 1904.\n\nEnrique Mallen, ed., The On-Line Picasso Project, Sam Houston State University, n.d., https:\/\/picasso.shsu.edu\/index.php?view=ArtworkInfo&OPPID=OPP.03:022 (accessed Oct. 2012), cat. 03:022 (ill.), as Le vieux guitariste aveugle, Barcelona, Fall\/1903 [~Winter]\/1903~1904.\n\nStephanie D\u2019Alessandro, Picasso and Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Works (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2013), pp. 9; 17; 18 (ill.); 28; 34-35, pl. 4; 102, cat. 6.\n\nAllison Malafronte, \u201cPicasso and Chicago: A Hundred-Year Art Affair,\u201d Fine Art Connoisseur, n.d. [Feb. 2013?], http:\/\/www.fineartconnoisseur.com\/Picasso-and-Chicago-A-Hundred-Year-Art-Affair\/15593501 (accessed Feb. 27, 2013).\n\nThomas Connors, \u201cPerfectly Pablo,\u201d Michigan Avenue, Feb. 2013, pp. 86, 87 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\u20131904.\n\nThomas Connors, \u201cAIC Opens \u2018Picasso and Chicago,\u2019\u201d Michigan Avenue, Feb. 2013, http:\/\/michiganavemag.com\/living\/articles\/aic-opens-picasso-and-chicago (accessed Feb. 26, 2013), n.pag. (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\u20131904.\n\nJavier Pes, \u201cPablo Picasso: A Man about Town,\u201d Art Newspaper, Feb. 1, 2013, p. 35 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\u201304.\n\nLauren Weinberg, \u201cThe Picasso Effect,\u201d Time Out Chicago, Feb. 14, 2013, pp. 18\u201319, as The Old Guitarist, 1903\u201304.\n\nMark Caro, \u201cLooking at Picasso from Chicago\u2019s Angle,\u201d Chicago Tribune, Feb. 15, 2013, cover (ill.); sec. 5, p. 5, as The Old Guitarist, 1902\u201304; The Old Guitarist, 1903\u201304.\n\nAssociated Press, \u201cArt Institute of Chicago Opens Major Picasso Show,\u201d New York Times, Feb. 19, 2013, http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2013\/02\/19\/arts\/ap-us-chicago-picasso.html?ref=aponline&_r=1& (accessed Feb. 26, 2013).\n\nCaryn Rousseau, \u201cPicasso and Chicago: Art Institute Opens Major Show Dedicated to the Famed Spanish Painter,\u201d Huffington Post, Feb. 19, 2013, http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/19\/picasso-and-chicago-art-institute-major-show_n_2717584.html and http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/19\/picasso-and-chicago-art-institute-major-show_n_2717584.html#slide=2124777 (accessed Feb. 26, 2013), n.pag. (ill.), as Old Guitarist and The Old Guitarist, 1902\u201304.\n\nChris Miller, \u201cReview: \u2018Picasso and Chicago\u2019\/Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Newcity Art, Feb. 21, 2013, http:\/\/art.newcity.com\/2013\/02\/21\/review-picasso-in-chicagoart-institute-of-chicago\/ (accessed Feb. 27, 2013), n.pag. (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1902\u201304.\n\nHedy Weiss, \u201cArt Institute Exhibit \u2018Picasso and Chicago\u2019 as Enigmatic as Famous Chicago Landmark,\u201d Herald-News, Feb. 21, 2013, updated Feb. 22, 2013, http:\/\/heraldnews.suntimes.com\/entertainment\/18340917-421\/art-institute-exhibit-picasso-and-chicago-as-enigmatic-as-famous-chicago-landmark.html (accessed Feb. 26, 2013), n.pag.; \u201cGallery\u201d sec. (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1902\u201304.\n\nHedy Weiss, \u201cMaster Collection: Art Institute Exhibit \u2018Picasso and Chicago\u2019 as Enigmatic as Famous Sculpture,\u201d Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 22, 2013, p. 10 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1902\u201304.\n\nC\u00e9cile Godefroy, ed., Les musiques de Picasso, exh. cat. (Gallimard: Mus\u00e9e de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris, 2020), 30, fig. 8 (color ill.), as Le Vieux Guitariste.\n\nKenneth Brummel, Susan Behrends Frank, Marilyn McCully, Patricia Favero, Eduard Vall\u00e8s, Sandra Webster-Cook, Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, exh. cat. (New York: DelMonico Books; Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario; Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 2021), 308, fig. 15 (color ill.).\n\nHugh Eakin, Picasso\u2019s War: How Modern Art Came to America (New York: Crown, 2022), 5, 358 (not ill.). \n\nJames Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 103 (color ill.).","exhibition_history":"Probably Paris, Galerie Vollard, Exposition Picasso, Dec. 1910\u2013Feb. 1911, no cat.\n\nNew York, Carroll Galleries, Third Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, Mar. 8\u2013Apr. 3, 1915, cat. 3, as The Guitarrist [sic].\n\nChicago, Arts Club, Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Mar. 26\u2013Apr. 9, 1930, cat. 6, as Le Guitariste, about 1910.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 402, as The Guitarist, 1903.\n\nHartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, Feb. 6\u2013Mar. 1, 1934, cat. 11 (ill.), as Vieux Guitariste, 1903.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 358, as The Guitarist, 1903.\n\nNew York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, Picasso: \u201cBlue\u201d and \u201cRose\u201d Periods, 1901\u20131906, Nov. 2\u201326, 1936, cat. 15 (ill.), as The Old Guitar Player (The Guitarist), Barcelona, 1903.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, Nov. 15, 1939\u2013Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 1\u2013Mar. 3, 1940; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Mar. 17\u2013Apr. 14, 1940; Boston, Museum of Art, Apr. 26\u2013May 25, 1940; San Francisco Museum of Art, June 25\u2013July 22, 1940; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Sept. 28\u2013Oct. 27, 1940; Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 7\u2013Dec. 8, 1940; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum, Dec. 20, 1940\u2013Jan. 17, 1941; Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Mar. 17\u2013Apr. 13, 1941, as The Old Guitarist, Barcelona, 1903 (New York, Chicago, and possibly St. Louis only).\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Gallery of Art Interpretation: Presenting the Art Institute's Picassos, Sept. 12\u2013Dec. 15, 1955, no cat.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Picasso in Chicago: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Chicago Collections, Feb. 3\u2013Mar. 31, 1968, cat. 7 (ill.).\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, C\u00e9zanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13, 2006\u2013Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 148 (ill.), as The Old Guitarist, 1903\/4; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17\u2013May 13, 2007 and Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, June 18\u2013Sept. 16, 2007 (New York and Chicago only).\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Picasso and Chicago, Feb. 20\u2013May 12, 2013, cat. 6 (ill.). \n\nFort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum,\u00a0The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct.\u00a06, 2013\u2013Feb.\u00a016, 2014, no cat.\u00a0no.\u00a0","provenance_text":"Ambroise Vollard (1867\u20131939), Paris, c. 1906, probably acquired directly from the artist [New York 2006]; sold through Carroll Galleries, New York, to John Quinn (1870\u20131924), New York, 1915 [Feb. 26, 1915 letter from John Quinn to Ambroise Vollard, and Memorandum of Pictures consigned to Carroll Galleries, Inc., John Quinn Collection, New York Public Library Manuscript Division, copies in curatorial object file]; Quinn Estate, 1924; sold through Felix Wildenstein, Art Centre auction, New York, to Paul Rosenberg (1881\u20131959), Paris, Jan. 9, 1926 [\u201c52 Picasso Paintings Sold,\u201d New York Times, Jan. 10, 1926, copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Joseph Stransky, The French Galleries, New York, to Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873\u20131953), Chicago, 1926 [May 21, 1927 letter from Frederic Clay Bartlett to Joseph Stransky and Nov. 17, 1975 letter from Alexandre Rosenberg to Courtney G. 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