Description & Technical information
Drawn on the 1st of January 1959.
The present sheet was until recently in the collection of the artist’s granddaughter Marina Ruiz Picasso (b.1951), the only daughter of Picasso’s eldest son Paulo. Though her relationships with both her father and grandfather were troubled, she was the only legitimate grandchild of the artist alive at the time of his death in 1973, and therefore received the second-largest inheritance, after that of Picasso’s second wife Jacqueline.
As Picasso’s biographer John Richardson has noted, Marina Picasso ‘differs from the artist’s other five heirs in that she has made a point of exhibiting as much as possible of her magnificent collection in a succession of traveling exhibitions…for students of modern art in cities which have never seen a Picasso retrospective, these exhibitions have been a revelation.’
A photo-certificate from Claude Picasso, dated 12 November 2019, accompanies the present sheet.
Date: 1.1.59
Medium: Pen and brown ink on a page from a large sketchbook
Signature: Dated and numbered 1.1.59 / 111 at the upper left.
Numbered 331 and 5790 on the verso.
Dimensions: 37 x 27 cm (14⁵/₈ x 10⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: The estate of the artist (No.5790)
By inheritance to the artist’s granddaughter, Marina Picasso, Cannes, Geneva and New York (Lugt 3698), her collection stamp on the verso.
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints

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