Signed, upper right: Picasso
Sticker, on verso: C.M.A. TR 6077.1
Oil on canvas
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.191
European Modern Art to 1970
Signed, upper right: Picasso
Sticker, on verso: C.M.A. TR 6077.1
Mme. Jacques Doucet (Paris, France)
probably 1932, (Georges Petit Gallery, Paris, France)
1937, purchased by (Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1939, purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pablo Picasso, Head of a Harlequin, 1905, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.191.