PABLO PICASSO | ITALIENNE À LA FLEUR

PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)
ITALIENNE À LA FLEUR

watercolour on paper
Sheet: sight size: 18.4 by 13.4cm., 7¼ by 5¼in.
Sheet size (folded): 40 by 27.4cm., 15¾ by 10¾in.
Framed: 38.6 by 34.3cm., 15¼ by 13½in.
Executed in Rome in 1917.

Condition Report:
Executed on cream fibrous wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the over-mount in four places along the upper edge. The sheet is folded and significantly larger than the image size (the sheet was very likely in this folded state before the image was executed). The extreme right and lower edges are deckled. The sheet is slightly time-stained and is very gently undulated towards the lower edge. This work is in overall very good condition.

Provenance:
Estate of the artist

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