Pablo Picasso

Mr and Mrs Augusto Palanza, Buenos Aires (acquired by 1954) 

Galeria Witcomb, Buenos Aires, 3 September 1963 (consigned by the above)

Alejandro Leonescu, Buenos Aires and Barcelona (acquired from the above sale) 

Private Collection, Barcelona (acquired by descent from the above) 

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 November 1987, lot 39 (consigned by the above)

Gallery Suzuki, Tokyo (acquired from the above sale) 

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989) 

Christie’s, New York, 16 November 2016, lot 15b (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 6, Paris, 1954, no. 197, pl. 25, illustrated (dated 1898 or 1899) 

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso. A Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1900-1906, Neuchâtel, 1966, no. I.21, p. 112, illustrated (dated 1899-1900)

Jean Palau i Fabre, Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 324, p. 167, illustrated in colour (titled Portrait of Angel F. de Soto and dated 1899)

John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, 1881-1906, vol. I, New York, 1991, p. 115, illustrated (dated 1899)

Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Museo Picasso, Picasso and els 4 Gats: The Early Years in Turn-of-the Century Barcelona, 1996, pp. 178 and 180, fig. 30, illustrated in colour (dated 1899)

Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Style and Meaning, London, 2002, p. 63, fig. 34, illustrated in colour (dated 1899)