Pablo Picasso

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Estate of the artist
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on September 19, 1997)
Acquired from the above

Avignon, Palais des Papes, Pablo Picasso 1969-70, 1970, no. 78, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Homme)
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picasso: Letzte Bilder (Werke 1966-1972), 1993-94, no. 16, illustrated in color the catalogue
Las Vegas, Picasso Restaurant, Bellagio, 1998-2021

Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Man)
Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon. Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement, Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Homme)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 420, illustrated pl. 120 (before the artist’s signature)
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 144
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 166