Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La villa au palmier

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
La villa au palmier
signed 'Picasso' (lower left); dated and inscribed '4.2.51. Dimanche Vallauris' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
35 x 45 5/8 in. (89.1 x 115.9 cm.)
Painted on 4 February 1951

Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (acquired from the artist, November 1953).
Leigh B. and Mary Block, Chicago (by May 1967).
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1988.

Pre-Lot Text
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago

Literature
F. Elgar, Picasso et Léger: Deux hommes, deux mondes, exh. cat., Les Amis de l'Art, Paris, 1954, no. 14 (illustrated).
W. Boeck and J. Sabartés, Picasso, Paris, 1955, p. 478, no. 217 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1965, vol. 15, no. 187 (illustrated, pl. 111).
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1987-1988, pp. 4 and 71 (illustrated, pl. 6).
M. Fitzgerald and J.M. Boddewyn, Picasso and American Art, exh. cat., The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006, p. 371.

Exhibited
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Picasso: 1950-1953, November-December 1953, no. 7 (illustrated; dated 1952).
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Picasso, November-December 1956, p. 84, no. 283 (illustrated, p. 64).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May-November 1967, no. 41 (illustrated; titled Villa in Vallauris).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, February-April 1968, no. 39 (illustrated in color, titled Villa in Vallauris).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso and Chicago: One Hundred Years, One Hundred Works, February-May 2013, p. 110, no. 202 (illustrated in color, pl. 80).