Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1939, printed 1942, published 1943
Medium
Aquatint and etching, with scraping, on copper in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 66.4 × 51.2 cm (26 3/16 × 20 3/16 in.); Sheet: 76.5 × 56.9 cm (30 1/8 × 22 7/16 in.)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Woman with Tambourine as a Pablo Picasso aquatint, dated 1939, printed 1942, published 1943, in Aquatint and etching, with scraping, on copper in black on ivory wove paper. This catalog entry preserves the holding institution’s title and object metadata rather than inferring undocumented imagery, sitter identity, or artist intent.
Woman with Tambourine 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: Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Public Collection — Open to visitors
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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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