Pablo Picasso

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

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 94
Lausanne, FAE, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Picasso Contemporain, 1994, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Geneva, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Picasso L'Africain, 1998, no. 49, illustrated in the catalogue 

Werner Spies, Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Berlin & Düsseldorf, 1984, no. 593-I, illustrated p. 400
Werner Spies, Picasso Sculpteur, catalogue raisonné des sculptures établi en collaboration avec Christine Piot, Ostfildern & Stuttgart, 2000, no. 593-I, illustrated p. 387

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The cut-out is affixed to the mount at intermittent points along the verso of the perimeter. There is a watermark on the verso of the sheet running through the figure's feet. The folds running down the figure's torso and legs are inherent to the artist's process. There are some faint creases visible to the proper right leg, to the lower half of the proper left leg, to the face and at the figure's proper right hip and shoulders. There is a tiny nick to the edge of the sheet at the figure's neck. Some faint studio marks and a few scattered tiny specks of foxing. This work is in overall very good condition.
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