1951 (St. Tropez)
India ink on paper recto(top)/verso(bottom)
Dated “St Tropez 29 Juillet ’51” upper left in ink
Second image, nude sketch, verso

Provenance:
Collection of Genevieve Laporte (gift from the artist)

Bibliographie · Literature:
PABLO PICASSO. Ausgewählte Graphik und Arbeiten auf Papier · Selected graphic and works on paper, Ausstellungskatalog · Exhibition catalogue, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt am Main 2020, S./p. 12

Illustrated in “Dans Le Coeur De Pablo Picasso”
Genevieve Laporte, section II, plate 12

La Toilette is a page from Picasso’s sketchbook that was taken apart. Double-sided, it is a record of a summer holiday that he spent with Geneviève Laporte, a young woman with whom he had recently begun having an affair. Inspired as always by a new love, Picasso made copious drawings of Geneviève in pencil and in ink wash during this holiday. Two years later, shortly after Françoise Gilot left the artist, Picasso invited Laporte to move in with him, but she declined, instead going on to marry a former Resistance fighter in 1959.