Pablo Picasso

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

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut & Zürich, Kunsthaus, Collection Marina Picasso, 1981-82, no. 217, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art & Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso, Masterpieces from the Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in USA and USSR, 1983, no. 172, illustrated in the catalogue
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 70
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco & New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945, 1998-99, no. 52, illustrated in the catalogue
Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, Pablo Picasso, Der Reiz der Fläche/The Appeal of Surface, 1999, no. 39, illustrated in the catalogue
Dublin, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Picasso Working on Paper, 2000, no. 142, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso: Guerra y Paz, 2004, no. 57, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1960, vol. XI, no. 290, illustrated p. 115
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944, San Francisco, 1999, no. 41-242, illustrated p. 83

Executed on a whole page of the newspaper 'Paris-Soir' dated 11.9.41. The sheet is affixed to the mount at intermittent points along the perimeter of the verso and is floating in its mount. The sheet is time-stained and there are artists pinholes to the upper right and left corners. There are a few nicks to the right edge and a larger spot of paper loss to the upper left corner and another in the centre of the upper edge. There is a repaired tear of approximately 4cm to the centre of the right edge and a further repaired tear to the centre of the left edge. This work is in good overall condition.
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