Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Mère et enfant
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
pen and gold and sepia inks over pencil on paper
4 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (10.9 x 16.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1901
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Mère et enfant
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
pen and gold and sepia inks over pencil on paper
4 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (10.9 x 16.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1901
Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne. Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers. Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner, July 1993.
D. Chevalier, Picasso, époques bleue et rose, Vaduz, 1991, p. 38 (illustrated; titled Maternité). The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Turn of the Century, 1900-1901, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris, San Francisco, 2010, p. 266, no. 1901-520 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Maîtres suisses et français du XIXe et XXe siècle, April-May 1981, no. 108 (illustrated). Bogotá, Museo Nacional de Colombia, Picasso en Bogotá, May-August 2000, pp. 70 and 206, no. 4 (illustrated in color).
Specialist note
The Comité Picasso confirmed the authenticity of this work in 1987.
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