This young woman may be the granddaughter of Picasso's innkeeper, Josep Fondevila. She wears the characteristically modest dress of the women of Gósol, a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees not far from Andorra.
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Paul Huldschinsky, Berlin (probably acquired through Wilhelm Uhde); his widow, Mrs. A. Fürstenberg, Amsterdam (probably until after World War II); Kurt Stern, New York (until 1950; sold in 1950 to Wildenstein); [Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1950–51; sold in 1951 to Baker]; Walter C. Baker, New York (1951–d. 1971; his bequest to MMA)
Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. "Moderne Kunst Kring: Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst," October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 102.
Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London. "The Art of Drawing, 1500–1950," May 14–July 4, 1953, no. 126 [possibly this picture].
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings," June 2–September 4, 1960, unnum. checklist (p. 18; as "Young Girl with Folded Hands").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from Private Collections," July 8–September 6, 1966, checklist no. 23 (drawings section).
Barcelona. Museu Picasso. "Picasso, 1905–1906: From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol," February 5–April 19, 1992, no. 180.
Kunstmuseum Bern. "Picasso, 1905–1906: From the Rose Period to the Ochres of Gósol," May 8–June 26, 1992, no. 180.
Paris. Musée Picasso. "Picasso 1901–1909: Chefs d'oeuvre du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," October 21, 1998–January 25, 1999, unnumbered cat. (fig. 10).
Stadthalle Balingen. "Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses des Menschen; Arbeiten auf Papier, 1895–1972," June 20–September 24, 2000, no. 60.
Liège, Belgium. Salle Saint Georges. "Pablo Picasso," October 6, 2000–January 31, 2001, no. 39.
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Claus Virch. Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. [New York], 1962, p. 64, no. 114, ill. n. p.
Gary Tinterow inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, pp. 3, 96–97, no. 33, ill. (color).
Rachel Mustalish inPicasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2010, p. 98.
Conxita Boncompte. "Reflections on 'Peasant Girls from Andorra'." OJO: Le Journal. no. 21, March 2013 [http://www.picasso.fr/us/picasso_page_article.php], n. 119.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
1921
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