Jeune femme pensive aux roses rouges

Inscriptions: Signed and dated 10-23 (lower right)

Provenance: Maître Blache, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 12 March 1972

Maître Blache, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 6 June 1973, lot 129

Yvan Lubetski

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 4 December 1980, lot 576

Claudia von Schilling (acquired at the above sale)

Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 11 June 2004, lot 1586

Private Collection, Berlin

Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2004, lot 384

Opera Gallery, Paris

Literature: Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 185, p. 106, reproduced.

Notes: Sotheby’s (5 November 2004) lists the Metzinger in Retrospect reference under Exhibited. However, the catalogue itself notes “Location unknown”. The rule is, works with titles in bold were exhibited.