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Pablo Picasso

Jeune fille (recto); Étude pour Saltimbanque (verso)

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Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Jeune fille (recto); Étude pour Saltimbanque (verso)

watercolour and crayon on paper (recto)

pen and ink on paper (verso)

each image size: 14.3 by 8.3 cm. 5⅝ by 3¼ in.

sheet size: 14.3 by 16.8 cm. 5 5/8 by 6⅝ in.

Framed: 39 by 41.2 cm. 15¾ by 16¼ in.

Executed in 1905.


The Comité Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Estate of the artist

Marina Picasso, France (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1988)

Galerie Jan Krugier, Switzerland (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 8 February 2006, lot 130

Private Collection, Saudi Arabia (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2011, lot 250

Galerie Ritthaler, Hamburg

Private Collection

Kunkel Fine Art, Munich

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Venice, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso, Opere dal 1895 al 1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 49, pls. 10 and 5, pp. 179-181, recto and verso illustrated (titled Carnet 24)

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut and Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pablo Picasso, Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1981-82, no. 43, pls. 5 and 10, p. 44, recto and verso illustrated (titled Carnet 24)

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso, Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in USA and USSR, 1983, no. 24, pls. 5 and 9, pp. 183-84, recto and verso illustrated (titled Carnet 24)

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, 1984, no. 169, pl. 8, p. 184, verso illustrated (titled Sketchbook 24)

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Picasso Works on Paper. Barcelona, Blue and Pink Periods from the Collection of Marina Picasso, 1988, no. 35:10, n.p., recto illustrated in colour (titled Carnet no. 35)

Barcelona, Museu Picasso and Bern, Kunstmuseum, Picasso 1906-1906, 1992, no. 50, p. 185, (titled Album 24), recto illustrated in colour; verso illustrated

Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim and Cie. and New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Pablo Picasso Métamorphoses. Œuvres de 1898 à 1973 de la Collection Marina Picasso, 2001-02, no. 5, p. 9, recto illustrated in colour

Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher, eds., Je suis le cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso, New York, 1986, nos. 5 and 10, pp. 23 and 26, recto illustrated in colour; verso illustrated