Pablo Picasso

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired directly from the artist)
Mrs. Brian Derek Mace, California (acquired by 1961)
Private Collection, Oregon (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 3, 2005, lot 366)
Acquired at the above sale

Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, "Bonne Fête" Monsieur Picasso from Southern California Collectors, 1961, no. 101 (titled Jeune fille et vieillard)
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Picasso: Passion & Creation, The Last Thirty Years, 2001, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Young Girl and an Old Man)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 56, illustrated p. 20
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Fifties I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no. 53-120, illustrated p. 156
James J. Bigoni, Fantastic Travel & Vacations, Oregon, 2001, illustrated pp. 16 & 96

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, the sheet is T-hinged to the mount. The left edge is irregular consistent with extraction from a sketchbook. There is a faint matte stain but the sheet is otherwise only very lightly time-stained. There is a very slight waviness to the left half of the composition consistent with drying of the medium. This work is in excellent condition.
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