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

Cannes, Centre d'art La Malmaison, Picasso, l'atelier de La Californie, 1994, n.n.
Künzelsau, Museum Würth & Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum, Picasso, sein Dialog mit der Keramik - Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1999-2000, n.n.
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Le feu et la terre, 2004-05, n.n.

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1953 à 1955, Paris, 1965, vol. XVI, no. 397, illustrated p. 144
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, The Fifities I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no. 55-080, illustrated p. 294

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount at intermittent points along the perimeter of the verso and is floating in its mount. The edges are deckled with minor handling marks and creases. There are artist's pinholes in all four corners. The sheet is lightly time-stain with a few scattered specks of foxing. This work is in overall very good condition.
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