Pablo Picasso, Femme assise dans un fauteuil

signed "Picasso" upper right; dated "24.10.48" on the reverse
oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 31 7/8 in. (101 x 81 cm.)
Painted on October 24, 1948.

Provenance:
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (stock no. 011889)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1966)
Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1972

Exhibited:
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Pablo Picasso, September - November 1953, no. 126, p. 66 (illustrated, p. 248)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso, Works from 1932-1965, February - April 1967, no. 28, n.p. (illustrated)
Musée d'Unterlinden Colmar, Picasso, oeuvres récentes, July - September 1967, no. 29, n.p.
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, September 21 - November 10, 1968, no. 67, p. 68 (illustrated, p. 56)
Museo d'Arte Moderna Città di Lugano, Passioni d'Arte da Picasso a Warhol, September 22 - December 8, 2002, p. 216 (illustrated, p. 217)

Literature:
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso, London, 1955, no. 272, p. 484 (illustrated)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 15, Paris, 1965, no. 103, p. 164 (illustrated, p. 58)
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Roland Penrose, Worte und Gedanken von Pablo Picasso, Basel, 1967-1968, no. 73, p. 207 (illustrated, p. 109)
Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité, Geneva, 1971, p. 294 (illustrated, p. 79)
Elizabeth Servan-Schreiber and José Bergamín, Picasso Laureatus, Son oeuvre depuis 1945, Paris, 1971, no. 77, pp. 69, 221 (illustrated)
Pierre Daix, Picasso: Life and Art, New York, 1993, p. 430, note 7
Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Cologne, 1997, p. 474 (illustrated, p. 475)
Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, fig. 926, pp. 376, 522 (illustrated, p. 375)
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973, Liberation and Post-War Years, 1944-1949, San Francisco, 2000, no. 48-032, p. 235 (illustrated, p. 204)
Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Parils-Vallauris, 1943-1953, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2012, fig. 32, p. 180 (illustrated, p. 181)

Property from an Important European Private Collection