Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait (Head of a Young Man)
1905
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Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait (Head of a Young Man)
1905
Physical Qualities
Reed pen and black ink, Sheet: 318 × 239 mm. (12 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.485
Preparatory drawing for the painting, 'Self-Portrait with Palette,' Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; probably purchased from Quatre Chemins, Paris , 1934
NYC, Wildenstein & Co., "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 29-May 11, 1974
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Boston, MFA, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," 1991-1992
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Boston, MFA, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum," 1991-1992
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Picasso: Portrait and Figure," August 8, 2001-October 28, 2001.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris," circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 2 - June 3, 2007.
Adelyn Breeskin, "Early Picasso Drawings in the Cone Collection," "Magazine of Art," vol. XLV, no. 3, March 1952, p. 109, ill.
"The Cone Collection. " rev. ed., Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967 no. 315, ill. p. 57.
Christian Zervos, "Pablo Picasso, Vol. VI," Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1970, no. 851.
Victor I. Carlson, "Picasso: Drawings and Watercolors, 1899-1907 in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976, cat. 44.
"The International Review," Vol. XVII, No.1, May - June 1995, p.5, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 85, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art Art. Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, page 50.
Inscribed: Recto: "Picasso" in graphite at bottom right corner.
Markings: Watermark: Ingres 1871 along left.
