Picasso had first encountered African carvings in the studio of Henri Matisse. Writers believe that this drawing evokes the African Fang masks Picasso had seen during his repeated visits to the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (now part of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) in the spring of 1908.
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[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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Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 2b, Works from 1912 to 1917. Paris, 1942, p. 310, no. 706, ill.
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. New York, 1955, pp. 482, 489 (no. 96), no. 250, ill.
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet. Picasso, The Cubist Years, 1907–1916: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works. Boston, 1979, p. 218.
Julia May Boddewyn in Michael FitzGerald. Picasso and American Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2006, p. 340.
Sabine Rewald inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 122–23, no. 42, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, p. 122.
Sabine Rewald inObsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. New York, 2018, pp. 98, 127, no. 46, ill. p. 107 (color).
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1929
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