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

Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso: Guerra y Paz, 2004, no. 153, illustrated in the catalogue

'Couleur de Picasso' in Verve, Revue de l'Art, vol. V, nos. 19 & 20, Paris, 1948, illustrated n.p.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1963, vol. XIV, no. 202, illustrated p. 91
Neil Cox & Deborah Povey, A Picasso Bestiary, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 158
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings Watercolors Drawings & Sculpture, Liberation and Post War Years, 1944-1949, San Francisco, 2010, no. 46-118, illustrated p. 98

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 the mount. The edges are deckled and slightly irregular with some minor handling creases. The sheet is lightly time-stained and gently undulating. There are scattered faint specks of foxing and media stains in the background. This work is in overall very good condition.
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