Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de Massine
pencil on paper
12½ x 9? in. (32 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1917
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de Massine
pencil on paper
12½ x 9? in. (32 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1917
The artist’s estate.
Marina Picasso, Paris, by descent from the above.
Galerie Krugier, New York.
Mel Ferrer, Santa Barbara, CA., by whom acquired from the above, and thence to his estate.
Mrs. Lisa Soukhotine-Ferrer, Santa Barbara, CA., to whom gifted from the above.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 29, Supplément aux années 1914-1919, Paris, 1975, no. 295 (illustrated pl. 120).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 17-149 (illustrated p. 43).
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