Reclining Bather with a Book

Inscription: Signed in graphite, lower right: Picasso

[Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, until 1922; sold in July 1922 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1939–82, inv. 39.1950; his bequest to MMA)

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