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Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Hélène Parmelin1952

Not on view
Horizontal painting in a Cubist style, a head-and-shoulders figure with flowing yellow-green hair and a gray face rendered with bold black outlines against a cobalt blue background
Artist or Maker
Pablo Picasso
Spain, 1881-1973, active France
Title
Portrait of Hélène Parmelin
Place Made
France
Date Made
1952
Medium
Oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
20 1/4 x 26 3/4 in. (51.5 x 68 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.108
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
Studio of the artist (1881-1973). Collection Hélène Parmelin (1915-1998) and Edouard Pignon (1905-1993) , Paris; [Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris]; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1993 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York