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

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Presence of Ingres, Important works by Ingres, Degas, Picasso, Matisse and Balthus, 1988, no. 62
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 52

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, Des Ballets au drame (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999, no. 998, illustrated p. 265

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged to the mount on the verso of the upper corners and is floating in its mount. The edges are slightly irregular and the upper edge is deckled with two tiny tears, which are barely visible. The sheet is slightly time-stained with a faint mat stain visible along the extreme perimeter and a few faint scattered spots of foxing. There is a faint flattened crease running across the tip of the upper right corner and another in the lower left corner. This work is in overall very good condition.
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