Signed, in black charcoal, lower left: A mi amigo | E Torent | P. Ruiz Picasso

Eveli Torent

Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan (New York, New York, USA)

1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Boudaille, Georges and Pierre Daix. Picasso, The Blue and Rose Periods. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1967, p. 115, no. D. 1. 4. Bulletin of the DIA 18, 7 (April 1939): p. 3. Fabre, Josep Palau. Picasso I Els Seus Amics Catalans. Barcelona, 1971, p. 94. Richardson, John, (collaboration with Marilyn McCully). A Life of Picasso 1, 1881-1906. New York, 1993, p. 146. Symmes, M.F. "Portraits and their Makers." Michigan Quarterly Review 21, 4 (Fall 1982): pp. 579-588 (pl. 2). Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris, 1969, v. 21, p. 46, no. 118.

Pablo Picasso, Eveli Torent, 1899, charcoal on cream laid paper fully attached to a sheet of wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 38.34.