Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le Repos (Marie-Thérèse)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Le Repos (Marie-Thérèse)
signed 'Picasso' (lower left); dated and inscribed '17 mai XXXII Boisgeloup' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
10 ¾ x 18 1/8 in. (27.3 x 46.3 cm.)
Painted in Boisgeloup, 17 May 1932

Provenance
The Honorable Richard Casey, Sydney (1937).
The Honorable Jane MacGowan, Sydney (by descent from the above, by 1938); sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 1983, lot 71.
Richard M. Cohen, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 31.
Private collection, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie’s, New York, 1 May 2012, lot 3.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION

Exhibited
Sydney, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Special Exhibition of Contemporary British and Continental Artists, October-December 1938.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso and The Weeping Women: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, February 1994-January 1995, p. 151 (illustrated in color, fig. 111).