Pablo Picasso

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Description

Pablo Picasso
Personnage-pichet (right side of the recto) Annotations (right side of the verso)
pen and brown ink on paper
image size: 14.2 by 8.7cm., 5 5/8 by 3 3/8 in.
sheet size: 14.2 by 17.3cm., 5 5/8 by 6 7/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso Collection
Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Exhibited

Venice, 1981, illustrated in the catalogue
Munich & travelling, 1981-82, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo & Kyoto, 1983, illustrated in the catalogue
Melbourne & Sydney, 1984, illustrated in the catalogue
London, 1988, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona & Bern, 1992, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, 1999, illustrated in the catalogue
New York & Geneva, 2001-02

Literature

Glimcher & Glimcher (ed.), no. 30, illustrated p. 41 & verso: no. 34, illustrated p. 42

Catalogue Note

E.A. Carmean suggests that the annotions on the verso may be the artist's calculations of how much the canvas finally used for the Famille de Saltimbanques was going to cost him (see: Glimcher & Glimcher (ed.), p. 16).