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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme drapée debout
signed 'Picasso' (upper right)
sanguine on paper
11 5⁄8 x 8 7⁄8 in. (29.5 x 22.3 cm.)
Executed in Paris in January 1921
Provenance
Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris (no. 1818), by June 1927.
Lady Henry Bentinck, Underley Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale; her estate sale, Christie’s, London, 19 April 1940, lot 100.
The Leicester Galleries [Ernest Brown & Phillips], London (no. 4-6801), by whom acquired at the above sale.
W. Averell Harriman, London & New York, by whom acquired from the above on 31 December 1942.
Paul Haim, Paris.
Heinz Berggruen, Berlin & Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1970, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso vol. 4, Œuvres de 1920 à 1922, Paris, 1951, no. 237, n.p. (illustrated pl. 82; with incorrect medium).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Barcelona, 1999, no. 975, pp. 259 & 509 (illustrated p. 259; titled 'Leaning Woman with Drapes').
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Cent dessins par Picasso, June - July 1927, no. 96.
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Berggruen Collection, June - October 1988, no. 83, p. 206 (illustrated p. 207).
Paris, Musée National Picasso, Picasso / Berggruen: Une collection particulière, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 116 (illustrated; titled 'Femme debout' and with incorrect dimensions).
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