L'amour masqué

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
L'amour masqué
signed and dated 'Picasso 5.1.54.' (lower right)
brush and black ink on paper
12 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (32 x 23.8 cm.)
Painted on 5 January 1954

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
André Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York.
James Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1978.

Literature

M. Leiris, Picasso and The Human Comedy, New York, 1954 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1965, vol. 16, no. 127 (illustrated, pl. 44).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties I 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, p. 177, no. 54-027 (illustrated).

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