Pablo Picasso

R. S. Johnson, Chicago
Private Collection, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 7th May 2003, lot 352A
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale; sale: Sotheby's, New York, 6th May 2004, lot 404)
R. S. Johnson, Chicago (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Under Development: Dreaming the MCA's Collection, 1994
Chicago, R. Stanley Johnson, Picasso, works on paper, 2004. no. 33, illustrated in colour on the catalogue frontispiece & p. 79

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1967 à 1968, Paris, 1973, vol. XXVII, no. 50, illustrated pl. 15
Charles Feld, Picasso, Dessins 27.3.66 - 15.3.68, Paris, 1969, no. 201, illustrated in colour
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties II, 1964-1967, San Francisco, 2002, no. 67-266, illustrated p. 362

Executed on buff-colored paper affixed to a mat on the verso at the top corners. Sheet is slightly time-darkened. A few areas of tape residue on the verso at the top and left edges. 7 cm repaired tear running vertically along the center of the left edge. Work is in good condition.
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