PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Buste de femme (Portrait de Dora Maar), 1944
Oil on canvas
92.1 x 60 cm. (36 ¼ x 23 ⅝ in.)
Painted on 5 March 1944
Provenance
- Galerie, Louis Leiris, Paris
- Galerie Louis Carre, Paris
- G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel
- Private collection
- Sale, Christie’s, New York, May 10, 1989, Lot 78
- Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
- Thomas Amman Gallery, Switzerland
- Sale, Sotheby’s New York, November 7, 2001, Lot 32
- Private collection, USA
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso, 1945
- Paris, Galerie Louis Carre, Dix-neuf peinture de Picasso 1946, no. 10
- New York, Galerie Louis Carre, The Figures: November 1939-May 1944, no. 6
- Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Maitres de l’art modern, 1958, no. 13
- Basel, Galerie Beyeler, La Femme, 1969, no. 23
- Zurich, Kunsthaus; Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Galleriea d’Arte Moderna, Turin
- Thompson Pittsburg: Au seiner amerikanischen Privatsammlung, 1960, no. 184
- Tel Aviv Museum; Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso, 1966, no. 40
- Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso, werke von 1932-1965, 1967, no 25
Literature
- Harriet and Sidney Janis, Picasso, The Recent Years 1939-46, New York, 1946, illustrated p. 127 in a photograph of several works installed at the Galerie Louis Carre in 1946
- C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1984, vol. 13, no. 235 (illustrated, pl. 116)
- A. Wofsy, The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: Nazi Occupation 1940-1944, San Francisco 1999, p. 318, no. 43-023 (illustrated)
- C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris 2013, vol. 13, no. 235 (illustrated pl. 116)