Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Femme à la broche en tête de sphinx

Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme à la broche en tête de sphinx
dated top left '17 Mars 44'--dated again on the reverse '17 Mars 44'
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 24 1/8 in. (81 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted on March 17, 1944
Provenance
Maya Widmaier Picasso, Paris
Literature
Cahiers d'Art, 1940-1944, Paris, 1944, p. 70 (illustrated)
D.D. Duncan, Picasso's Picassos, Lausanne, 1961, p. 243 (illustrated)
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1962, vol. 13 (Oeuvres de 1943 et 1944), no. 238 (illustrated, pl. 117)
C.-P. Warncke, Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Cologne, 1994, vol. II (The Works, 1937-1973), p. 459 (illustrated in color)
Exhibited
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Picasso in Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939 bis 1945, April-June, 1988, p. 151, no. 30 (illustrated in color)