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View source →Pablo Picasso, 1909–10
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32 × 25 3/4 in. (81.3 × 65.4 cm)
Style
Proto-Cubism
Decade
1900s
The official Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY record identifies Woman in an Armchair as a Pablo Picasso painting, dated 1909–10, in Oil on canvas. This catalog entry follows the holding institution’s title, material, date, dimensions, and object link rather than inferring undocumented subject matter or artist intent.
Woman in an Armchair is grouped here under African / Proto-Cubist Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The institutional credit line is: The Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1997.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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