Pablo Picasso
Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins
Femme nue et deux personnages, 1967
Ink and brown wash
37 x 52.4 cm
Signed lower right "Picasso" and dated upper left "2.7.67.I"
LITERATURE:
Charles Feld: Picasso, Dessins, Paris 1969, no. 201
Christian Zervos: Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1967 et 1968, vol. XXVII, Paris 1973, no. 107, p.32 (Ill.)
Alan Wofsy, Herschel Chipp (Publ.): The Picasso Project, Picassos Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties II, 1964-1967, San Francisco 2002, no. 67-266, p. 362 (Ill.)
EXHIBITIONS:
Picasso, 20 Drawings 1967-1971, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, Fall 1971, no. 2, p. 7 (ill.)
Under Development: Dreaming the MCAs Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1994
Picasso. Works on paper, R.S. Johnson, Chicago, 2004, no. 33 (ill.)
PROVENANCE:
Louise Leiris Gallery, (D.H. Kahnweiler), Paris
R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago
Collection Dittmer, Lake Forest, Aspen and New York
R.S. Johnson, Chicago, 2004
Private Collection, Liechtenstein
This large sheet, created in Mougins in 1967, is a stupendous example of a vigorous period of Picasso's drawing between 1966-1968, in which private allegories of an erotic and humorous nature predominate. The stubble-headed figure in the center possibly shows features of the aging Picasso himself.