PABLO PICASSO | BUSTE DE FEMME

PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)
BUSTE DE FEMME

pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Sheet: 31.5 by 23.7cm., 12⅜ by 9⅜in.
Framed: 52.5 by 44.5cm., 20⅝ by 17½in.
Executed in 1908-09.

Condition Report:
This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream laid paper which has been torn unevenly, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to a crescent-shaped window mat at multiple places along its verso. An abstract pen and ink sketch is visible on the verso. All four edges are deckled. '1908 - 1909', '1127/6', 'z 26 /382' and 'inv 1095' inscribed on the verso by another hand. There is a tear measuring approximately 2.5cm in the lower half of the left edge.

Provenance:
Estate of the artist

Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)