Following the completion of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Picasso began to work on a large group of paintings and watercolors of single or several figures melded into their surroundings, as if they were emerging from drapery or clay. Picasso likely made this watercolor immediately after finishing Standing Nude (MMA 67.162). Shadows that are there penciled in are here colored with blue watercolor. Both works show Picasso revising and perfecting his ideas as he worked step-by-step through certain problems he had set for himself.
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Inscription: Signed in graphite, lower right: Picasso
the artist, Paris (from 1908; to Kahnweiler); [Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, in 1914; stock no. 1106, photo no. 200]; [Galerie Percier (Alfred Richet), Paris, by 1942–at least 1953]; private collection, Paris (until 1979); [Apollo Arts, Ltd. (Karel Zoller, Kurt Kimmel, and Eugene V. Thaw), Zurich, 1979–80; sold by Thaw on October 15, 1980 to Gelman]; Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1980–his d. 1986); Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1986–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons. "Picasso," July 1–September 27, 1953, no. 17.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 102).
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "De Matisse à Picasso: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman," June 18–November 1, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 126).
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Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 2a, Works from 1906 to 1912. Paris, 1942, p. 49, no. 102, ill.
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino. L'opera completa di Picasso cubista. Milan, 1972, pp. 96–97, no. 187, ill.
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet. Picasso, The Cubist Years, 1907–1916: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works. Boston, 1979, p. 212, no. 115, ill.
Andrew Decker. "Metropolitan: Une Exceptionnelle donation." Beaux Arts no. 170 (July 1998), p. 24.
Gary Tinterow 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. 13, fig. 16 (color, installation photo, Gelman apartment, 1989).
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. 118–19, no. 41, ill. p. 121 (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. 119.
Seán Hemingway. "Art of the Aegean Bronze Age." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 69 (Spring 2012), fig. 25 (color).
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1955, printed 1961
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