Femme dans un rocking-chair (Jacqueline)

Details

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme dans un rocking-chair (Jacqueline)
signed 'Picasso' (centre left); indistinctly dated '25.3.56' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
76 x 51 1/4 in. (194.5 x 130.1 cm.)
Painted at La Californie on 25 March 1956

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris, until at least 1958.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, London, 6 February 2007, lot 44.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 17, Oeuvres de 1956 à 1957, Paris, 1966, no. 49 (illustrated pl. 19).
K. Gallwitz, Picasso at 90: The Late Work, Geneva, 1971, no. 115, p. 85 (illustrated).
K. Gallwitz, Picasso: The Heroic Years, New York, 1985, no. 115, p. 85 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso Peintures 1955-1956, March - April 1957, no. 19.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, May - September 1957, p. 112 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, October - December 1957.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso, A Loan Exhibition of his Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Ceramics, Prints and Illustrated Books, January - February 1958, no. 258 (illustrated).

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