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Collection Online as of December 22, 2025
The Mother at Her Toilette
1905, printed 1913
(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer
(French, active 1800s–1900s)
publisher
(French, 1867–1939)
Image and Plate: 23.5 x 17.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 51 x 33 cm (20 1/16 x 13 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.891
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 13; Palau i Fabre 1041; Geiser/Baer I.40.15
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
During Picasso’s Rose Period (1904–6), the artist frequently depicted a family of circus performers engaged in the rituals of everyday life.- Borowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (April 1984): 116-129.
Published as: The Circus Family Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 124-125, fig. 17 www.jstor.orgDumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020. Reproduced: P. 91, cat. no. 63 - Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
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