Seated Nude

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): Picasso

[Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, until 1922; sold on July 21, 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, 1934 82, inv. 34.73; his bequest to MMA)

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