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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

63.78 in. (162.00 cm.) (height) by 51.18 in. (130.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Picasso XXXII.' (upper right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Picasso, June-July 1932, p. 70, no. 223 (titled Nu à la draperie bleue). Zurich, Kunsthaus, Picasso, September-November 1932, p. 16, no. 217 (titled Akt vor blauem Vorhang). Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d'oeuvres récentes de Picasso, March 1936. Los Angeles, UCLA Galleries, "Bonne Fête" Monsieur Picasso from Southern California Collectors, October-November 1961, p. 25 (illustrated).

Literature:

J. Cassou, Picasso, Paris, 1954 (illustrated in color on the frontispiece). F. Elgar, Picasso, A Study of His Work, New York, 1956, p. 156 (illustrated; titled Nude with Modeller's Turntable). J. Berger, The Success and Failure of Picasso, New York, 1965, p. 158, fig.90 (illustrated in reverse; dated 1933). R. Penrose, Picasso, His Life and Work, Los Angeles, 1981, p. 264, no. 2 (illustrated). M.C. FitzGerald, Making Modernism, Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth Century Art, New York, 1995, p. 236 (illustrated on the front cover, opposite the title page and p. 236). M. Müller, Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, Between Classicism and Surrealism, exh. cat., Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Munster, 2004, p. 60 (illustrated). E. Mallén, La sintaxis de la carne: Pablo Picasso y Marie-Thérèse, Santiago, 2005, p. 283. J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, The Triumphant Years 1917-1932, New York, 2007, p. 468 (illustrated, pp. 456 and 483). M.C. FitzGerald and E. Cowling, Picasso's Marie-Thérèse, exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, 2008, pp. 21 and 38 (illustrated, p. 21, fig. 7). The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture: Surrealism 1930-1936, San Francisco, 2009, p. 97, no. 32-027 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired from the artist, circa 1936). Acquired from the above by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, 2 January 1951.