Homme lançant une pierre

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Homme lançant une pierre
signed 'Picasso' (lower left); dated '7-9-20-' (upper right)
charcoal and pencil on beige-blue paper
18½ x 24 5/8 in. (47.4 x 62.5 cm.)
Executed in Juan-les-Pins on 7 September 1920

Provenance

Schoneman Galleries, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1980, lot 322a.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. IV, Oeuvres de 1920 à 1922, Paris, 1951, no. 176 (illustrated p. 56).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings & Sculpture, Neoclassicism I, 1920-1921, San Francisco, 1995, no. 20-402 (illustrated p. 125).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999, no. 837 (illustrated p. 230).

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