Pablo Picasso

Lluís Vilaró, Barcelona

Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin

Galerie Simon, Paris

Hermann Lange, Germany (acquired from the above in May 1925)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 17 May 1983, lot 42 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Kunsthaus Zurich (on loan 1959-1965)

Kunsthaus Zurich (on loan 1982-1983)

Kunstmuseum Bern, Der junge Picasso Frühwerk und Blaue Periode, 1983-84, no. 211 (dated 1904)

Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso i els 4 gats: La clau de la modernitat, 1995-96, no. 177, illustrated in colour (dated March 1904)

Barcelona, Museu Picasso (on loan 1996-2002)

Denys Sutton, Picasso, Peintures époques bleue et rose, Paris, 1955, fig. 22, illustrated (dated 1904)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1895 à 1906, vol. 1, Paris, 1957, no. 164, pl. 77, illustrated (dated 1903)

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso, 1900-1906. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1960, no. X.12, p. 236, illustrated (dated 1904)

Alberto Moravia and Paolo Lecaldano, L'opera completa di Picasso blu e rosa, Milan, 1968, no. 110, p. 96, illustrated (dated March 1904)

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso in Catalonia, Barcelona, 1975, p. 132

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo (1881-1907), Barcelona, 1980, no. 959, p. 368, illustrated (dated March 1904)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Didier Imbert Fine Art, Picasso, La célestine, 1988, p. 52, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Picasso. The Early Years, 1892-1906, 1997-98, p. 37