Pablo Picasso
Clowne et acrobate, 30 January 1954
Coloured crayon on paper
9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in, 24 x 32 cm
Signed, dated and numbered 'Picasso 30.1.54 I' lower right
Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1988, lot 194
Private Collection, Japan
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above)
Exhibitions
Los Angeles, California, UCLA Art Galleries, “Bonne Fete” Monsieur Picasso, 1961, no. 103 (as Les Gens du Cirque)Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, Vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 233, p. 74, illus.
A. Wofsy, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties I 1950-1955, The Picasso Project, San Francisco, 2004, no. 54-133, p. 204, illus.