Pablo Picasso

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut & Zurich, Kunsthaus, Collection Marina Picasso, 1981-82, no. 49
Venise, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso, Opere dal 1895 al 1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 62
Tokyo, National Gallery of Modern Art & Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso, Masterpieces from the Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in USA and USSR, 1983, no. 34
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria & Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, 1984, no. 25
London, Lefevre Gallery, Picasso, Works on paper, Barcelona, Blue and Pink Periods from the Collection of Marina Picasso, 1988, no. 27
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Picasso Dibujos, 1899-1917, 1989, no. 20
Barcelona, Museu Picasso & Bern, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Picasso 1905-1906, 1992, no. 206, illustrated in the catalogue
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 10

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1954, vol. VI: supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, no. 840, illustrated p. 101
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, The Rose Period, 1905-1906, San Francisco, 2012, no. 06-448, illustrated p. 297

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount on the verso of all four corners and floating in the mount. The edges are deckled and slightly unevenly cut. There are several artist's pinholes: in each of the corners and along the upper edge. An 'Ingres' watermark is visible towards the upper left corner and lower left edge. The sheet is lightly time-stained with a faint old mat stain and a few faint scattered spots of foxing. Some minor creasing and handling marks along the extreme perimeter of the sheet and notably across the upper left corner. Two tiny tears to the edge of the sheet at upper centre and on the lower right edge. This work is in good overall condition.
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