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

 

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Picasso at Work at Home, Selections from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1985-86, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue
Japan, L'Association des Musées d'Art Yomiuri Shimbun Sha, Exposition Pablo Picasso, Collection Marina Picasso, 1986-87, no. D-10, illustrated in the catalogue
Cannes, Centre d'art La Malmaison, Picasso, le nu en liberté, Collection Marina Picasso, 2013, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1954, vol. VI: supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, no. 507, illustrated p. 62
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo 1881-1907, Infancia y primera juventud de un demiurgo, Barcelona, 1980, no. 811, illustrated p. 320
William Rubin, Picasso and Portraiture-Representation and Transformation, New York, illustrated p. 128
Susan Grace Galassi, Picasso's Variations on the Masters, New York, 1996, no. 2-11, illustrated p. 34
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, The Blue Period, 1902-1904, San Francisco, 2011, no. 02-192, illustrated p. 61

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged to the overmount at two points along the verso of the upper edge. There is a faint drawing of a woman on the verso of the sheet. The edges are slightly irregular and have been unevely cut. Some faint flattened creases running diagonally in the lower left corner which are not visible when framed. The sheet is lightly time-stained. A faint spot of foxing is visible towards the upper left edge. This work is in overall very good condition.
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