Buste d'homme, 1969

paintings

130.2 x 96.8 cm (51.25 x 38.13 in)

Oil and Ripolin on canvas

Signed Picasso (upper right); dated 10.9.69 and numbered II (on the reverse)

Estate of the artist Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Private Collection, Switzerland Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on September 19, 1997) Acquired from the above

Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969 , New York, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Man ) Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon. Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement , Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Homme ) Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969 , vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 420, illustrated pl. 120 (before the artist’s signature) Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 144 Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 166

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 Buste d'homme Signed Picasso (upper right); dated 10.9.69 and numbered II (on the reverse) Oil and Ripolin on canvas 51 1/4 by 38 1/8 in. 130.3 by 97 cm Painted on September 10, 1969.