La jeune fille qui ne dort pas

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
La jeune fille qui ne dort pas
signed, dedicated and dated '20.mai.41. Picasso pour Herbert List' (upper right)
pencil on paper
8¼ x 10½ in. (21 x 26.7 cm.)
Drawn on 20 May 1941

Provenance

Herbert List, to whom given by the artist in 1944.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1940 et 1941, vol. 11, Paris, 1960, no. 142 (illustrated p. 56).

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Lot Essay

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has kindly confirmed that this work was signed and dedicated by Picasso to Herbert List. She has issued a certificate which is sold with the work.

Herbert List met Picasso in Paris in 1944. The photographer portrayed the artist during a visit to his atelier, and Picasso in return dedicated and offered to List the present drawing.

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