Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso
L’enfant à l’orange, 1951
Enamel on plywood
Work: 42½ × 35¹⁄₁₆ inches (108 × 89 cm)
Dated 9.1.51. (on the reverse)
PPI-5810
Provenance
Claude Picasso, Paris
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug, Switzerland
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2006)
Exhibited
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Mostra di Pablo Picasso, May–July 1953, no. 113 p.
48, n.p. (illustrated).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Pablo Picasso, September–November 1953, no. 154 (illustrated).
Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, November 1966–February 1967, no. 221
(illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Picasso, March–April 1967, no. 108, cover (illustrated in
color), n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation,
April–September 1996, p. 432 (illustrated in color; titled Paloma with an Orange).; traveled
to: Paris, Grand Palais, October 1996–January 1997.
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphosis of Style, February–May
2003, no. 207, p. 198–99 (illustrated in color.)
Literature
Aragon, Picasso: Deux périodes, 1900–1914 & 1950–1954, Paris: Maison de la pensée française,
1954, no. 28 (illustrated).
P. Daix, Picasso, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965, p. 201 (illustrated).
J. Leymarie, Picasso: The Artist of the Century, New York: Viking Press, 1972, p. 267 (illustrated).
P. Descargues, Picasso, New York: Felicie, 1974, p. 104 (illustrated in color).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Works from 1946 to 1953, vol. XV, Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 2013, no. 175, p.
104 (illustrated), p. 166