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Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Sylvette

1954

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  • Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
  • Title Portrait of Sylvette
  • Date 1954
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 28 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, 1959
  • Copyright © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Object number WU 3880

Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette: Picasso and the Model
Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, Germany), 02/22/2014 - 06/22/2014

Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s: Building the Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/04/2012 - 08/27/2012

Affinity of Form: African and Modern European Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/27/1999 - 10/24/1999

Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/1997 - 04/06/1997

5,000 Years of Faces
Bellevue Art Museum, 01/28/1983 - 07/30/1983

The Art of the Portrait
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/20/1982 - 01/09/1982

Portraits and Landscapes

Pablo Picasso, das Spätwerk
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Staaliche, Germany), 07/15/1968 - 10/06/1968

Washington University Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Daumier to Pollock
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 04/06/1966 - 05/08/1966

Moments in Portraiture
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), 03/16/1966 - 04/13/1966

Picasso and Man
Art Gallery of Ontario, 01/11/1964 - 02/16/1964
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 02/28/1964 - 03/31/1964

Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960

Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture from a St. Louis Private Collection
Saint Louis Art Museum, 08/01/1955 - 08/29/1955

1959
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, St. Louis

Inscription Recto, upper left, in gray paint: Picasso

Inscription Verso, upper left, in black paint, overwritten in white paint: 30.5.54.

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