Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Portrait de Dora Maar endormie

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de Dora Maar endormie
dated 'le 2 mars 37.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
14 7/8 x 20 1/8 in. (37.7 x 51 cm.)
Drawn on 2 March 1937

Provenance
Dora Maar, Paris (gift from the artist); Estate sale, Piasa, Paris, 27 October 1998, lot 13.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2010, lot 2.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Literature
P. Eluard, A Pablo Picasso, Geneva, 1947, p. 167 (illustrated; titled Portrait de mademoiselle D.M. endormie).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 95 (illustrated, pl. 42).
J.P. Crespelle, Picasso and His Women, New York, 1969 (illustrated).
J. Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité, Geneva, 1971, p. 248 (illustrated).
(possibly) P. Cabanne, His Life and Times, New York, 1977, p. 295.
P. Daix, La vie de peintre de Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1977, no. 43 (illustrated, pl. 6; titled Dora endormie).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica, 1927-1939, Barcelona, 2011, p. 295, no. 917 (illustrated).

Exhibited
Munich, Haus der Kunst; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité and Barcelona, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala L'Hospitalet, Dora Maar, October 2001-July 2002, p. 332, no. 174 (illustrated in color, p. 247).
Paris, Musée Picasso and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Picasso: Dora Maar, Il faisait tellement noir..., February-October 2006, p. 260, no. 143 (illustrated in color).