L'Équilibriste

Signed, dated and inscribed pour Lord / Picasso / Paris 5 novembre / 1945 (upper left)

25½ by 19⅞ in.; 64.8 by 50.5 cm

James Lord, Paris (gift from the artist in 1945)

B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago

Marianne Friedland Gallery, Ontario

Private Collection (acquired from the above in the 1980s)

Thence by descent (and sold: Christie's, London, June 19, 2013, lot 151)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1944 à 1946, Paris, 1963, vol. XIV, no. 127, illustrated pl. 60

James Lord, Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir, New York, 1993, illustrated pl. 6