Pablo Picasso

André Level, Paris (acquired from the artist by 1928) 

Galerie Petrides, Paris (acquired by 1948) 

Billy Wilder and Audrey Young, Los Angeles (acquired by 1961)

Christie’s, New York, The Billy Wilder Collection, 13 November 1989, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Christie’s, London, 28 November 1994, lot 17 

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Paul Petrides, Exposition, 1948

Los Angeles, University of California, Art Galleries, “Bonne Fête” Monsieur Picasso from Southern California Collectors, 1961, no. 88, illustrated

Santa Barbara, University of California, The Art Gallery, A selection of paintings, drawings, collages and sculpture from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder, 1966, no. 43 (titled Classic Head of a Woman and dated ca. 1921) 

Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Picassos in Southern California, A Tribute to the Artist at 90, 1971, no. 38 (dated circa 1921 and with incorrect measurements)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso in Fontainebleau, 2023-24, no. 118, pp. 123-24 and 129, illustrated in recreations of the artist’s studio; pp. 125 and 129-30, illustrated in photographs; p. 162, illustrated in colour

André Level, Picasso, Paris, 1928, pl. 37, illustrated in colour

Joan Merli, Picasso, Buenos Aires, 1948, no. 247, p. 601, illustrated 

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1920 à 1922, vol. 4, Paris, 1951, no. 347, pl. 137, illustrated 

Roland Penrose, The Eye of Picasso, New York, 1967, p. 49, pl. 11, illustrated in colour

Malcolm N. Carter, “Great Private Collections: The Obsessions of Billy Wilder,” Saturday Review, December 1980, p. 61, illustrated in colour

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballet to the Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999, no. 1124, p. 303, illustrated (titled Head of a Pensive Girl) 

Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Style and Meaning, London, 2002, p. 416, illustrated in a photograph; no. 372, p. 417, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Picasso Rivera: Conversations Across Time, 2016, p. 13, illustrated in a photograph