Pablo Picasso

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired directly from the artist by 1926)

Valentine Gallery, New York 

Stephen Carlton Clark, New York (acquired from the above in 1930)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1941)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 11 May 1944, lot 95 (consigned by the above)

Florene May and Samuel A. Marx, Chicago (acquired at the above sale through Pierre Matisse)

Mary L. and Leigh B. Block, Lake Forest, Illinois (acquired from the above on 19 October 1945)

Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg, New York (acquired from the above in 1948)

Sotheby’s, New York, 10 November 1999, lot 19 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Maud Dale, Picasso, New York, 1930, no. 37, illustrated (titled Femme sculpteur)

Charles-Henri Peuch, "Picasso et la représentation," Documents, Paris, no. 3, 1930, p. 121, illustrated

Usaburo Ihara, Picasso, Tokyo, 1936, p. 27, illustrated

Jean Cassou, Picasso, Paris, 1940, pl. 33, illustrated

Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, Picasso antes de Picasso, Barcelona, 1946, p. 207, illustrated

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1923 à 1925, vol. V, Paris, 1952, no. 451, pl. 181, illustrated

Roland Penrose and John Golding, Picasso in Retrospect, New York, 1973, p. 249, illustrated

Frank Elgar, Picasso, Paris, 1974, pl. 53, illustrated

Pierre Descargues, Edward Quinn and John Russell, Picasso, Paris, 1974, p. 125, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Picassos Klassizimsus, Werke 1914-1934, 1988, no. 14, p. 74, illustrated; p. 75

Giorgio Cortenova, Picasso: The Works of Pablo Picasso, New York, 1991, p. 197, illustrated in color (titled Woman with Sculpture)

Christian Geelhaar, Picasso: Wegbereiter und Förderer seines Aufstiegs 1899-1939, Zurich, 1993, pl. 154, p. 151, illustrated

Pierre Daix, Picasso Life and Art, New York, 1993, p. 190

Michael C. FitzGerald, Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth Century Art, New York, 1995, p. 158, illustrated (in an installation photograph of the 1926 Paul Rosenberg exhibition); p. 162, illustrated (titled Woman with a Sculpture); p. 216, illustrated (in an installation photograph of the 1934 Wadsworth Atheneum exhibition)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Grand Palais, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, 1996-97, p. 63, illustrated (titled Woman with Sculpture)

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: De los ballets al drama (1917-1926), vol. III, Barcelona, 1999, no. 1583, p. 445, illustrated (titled The Sculptress)

Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 547, p. 231, illustrated in color; p. 230 (titled The Sculptress and The Statue)

Exh. Cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Picasso: The Artist’s Studio, 2001-02, p. 33, illustrated in color; pp. 32, 34, 42 and 53

Rafael Jackson, Picasso y las poéticas surrealistas, De la biología a lo sagrado, Madrid, 2000, no. 85, p. 110; p. 109 (titled La Escultura)

Carsten-Peter Warncke and Ingo F. Walther, Pablo Picasso, The Works 1890-1936, vol. I, Cologne, 1994, p. 307, illustrated in color (titled Woman with Sculpture (The Sculptress))

Exh. Cat., Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, 2006-07, pp. 156, 180 and 340

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Picasso and American Art, 2006-07, pp. 151 and 155, illustrated

John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, vol. III, New York, 2007, p. 302, illustrated (titled The Sculptress)

Exh. Cat., Zürich, Kunsthaus, Picasso By Picasso. His First Museum Exhibition 1932, 2010-11, p. 101, illustrated (in an installation photograph of the 1932 Galerie Georges Petit exhibition)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern and Paris, Musée Picasso, Picasso 1932 Love Fame Tragedy, 2017-18, p. 126, illustrated (in an installation photograph of the 1932 Galerie Georges Petit exhibition)

Enrique Mallen, Pablo Picasso. The Interaction between Collectors and Exhibitions, 1899-1939, Portland, 2018, pp. 97 and 277 (titled La Statuaire (La Femme sculpteur))

Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Oeuvres récentes de Picasso, 1926, no. 50

Amsterdam, Musée Municipal, Cent ans de peinture française, 1928

New York, Valentine Gallery, Six Major Paintings by the Modern Masters of France: Braque, Derain, Matisse, Picasso and One Important Work by Henri Rousseau, 1930, no. 5, n.p., illustrated

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Picasso 1901-1932, 1932, no. 159, p. 54, illustrated

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Pablo Picasso, 1934, no. 60

New York, Valentine Gallery, Picasso: Twenty-One Paintings, 1908 to 1934, 1938, no. 13

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Human Image, 1958, no. 67, n.p., illustrated

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Picasso: Faces and Figures, 1900 to 1959, 1959, no. 2, n.p., illustrated

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Crosscurrents in Modern Art, Seven Decades, 1895-1905, 1966, no. 167, p. 95, illustrated (titled Woman with Statue)

Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, 1966-67, no. 139, n.p., illustrated

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Picasso. Retrospective, 1967, no. 65

New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Homage to Picasso for his 90th Birthday, 1971, no. 38, p. 48, illustrated (titled Statuary)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, 1980, p. 258, illustrated (titled Woman with Sculpture); p. 252