Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme couchée
indistinctly signed 'Picasso' (lower right) and dated '20.mai.41.' (lower center)
pencil on paper
8¼ x 10½ in. (21 x 26.7 cm.)
Drawn on 20 May 1941
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 20 May 1982, lot 177.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1960, vol. 11, no. 124 (illustrated, pl. 52).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue: Nazi Occupation 1940-1944, San Francisco, 1999, p. 19, no. 41-043 (illustrated).

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