Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1919
Medium
Graphite on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
Dimensions
40 × 31 cm (15 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
Style
Neoclassicism
Decade
1910s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Léonide Massine as a Pablo Picasso graphite, dated 1919, in Graphite on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream). Léonide Massine (1896–1979) was a Russian dancer and choreographer. He and Picasso worked together on the ballet production Parade in 1917 for Sergei Diaghilev’s theater company the Ballet Russes.
Léonide Massine is grouped under Neoclassical 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: Margaret Day Blake Collection.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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