Pablo Picasso

Barcelona, Museu Picasso & Bern, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Picasso 1905-1906, 1992, no. 84, illustrated in the catalogue
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Pierrot, Melancholie und Maske, 1995, n.n.
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso i el circ, 2006-07, no. 89, illustrated in the catalogue

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1970, vol. XXI, no. 147, illustrated p. 50
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, The Rose Period, 1905-1906, San Francisco, 2012, no. 05-146, illustrated p. 44

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount on the reverse of all four corners and at the centre of the right and left edges and is floating in the mount. The edges are deckled and the right edge has been unevenly cut. Some minor nicks and handling creases along the extreme perimeter. There are some flattened creases visible in each of the lower corners. Some skimming to the surface of the sheet on the upper left edge which has perhaps been previously restored. The sheet is slightly time-stained and there are a few faint scattered specks of foxing. This work is in overall very good condition.
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