Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Jeune Fille au Doigt (recto)

signed upper left Picasso, blue wash on paper
6 x 10in. (15.2 x 25.4cm.)

Autoportrait et Etudes de Nu (verso)

signed upper right Picasso, pen and black ink on paper
6 x 10in. (15.2 x 25.4cm.)

Executed circa 1906

Provenance

Rolf E. Stenersen, Oslo
Albert Gaubier, Copenhagen

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, Paris, 1932, p. 173, no. 364 (illustrated lower left corner section)
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1981, p. 483, no. 1410 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Pablo Picasso, Sept.-Nov.,1968, no. 105 (illustrated in 'Louisiana Revy', p.24)

Lot Essay

This drawing was part of a larger sheet of studies. It was executed circa 1906, but signed by Picasso at a later date at the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris. It is one of the studies for the painting Deux Femmes nues of 1906 in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Zervos, vol. I, no. 366)

The Galerie Louise Leiris has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work

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