Description The Art of Giving: Property from the Collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Sold for Charitable Purposes Supporting the Arts, Music and Medical Research Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 Femme nue couchée jouant avec un chat faintly signed Picasso (upper right); dated 17.2.64. and 7.8.9.3.64. (on the reverse) oil and Ripolin on canvas 51 ⅛ by 76 ⅝ in. 130 by 194.7 cm. Executed in Mougins on 17 February and 7-9 March 1964. Provenance Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) Private Collection, Europe (acquired in the 1970s) Christie's, London, 1 July 1998, lot 42 (consigned by the above) Acquired at the above sale by the present ownerLiterature Hélène Parmelin, Picasso. Notre Dame de Vie: Secrets d'alcôve d'un atelier , Paris, 1966, p. 89, illustrated in color Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso :  Oeuvres de 1964 , vol. XXIV, Paris, 1971, no. 94, pl. 26, illustrated Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 , vol. II, Cologne, 1994, p. 624, illustrated in color Exhibited Barcelona, Galeria Sala Gaspar, Picasso, Pinturas, Dibujos, Grabados,  1968, no. 6, illustrated in color (probably) Turin, Galleria Gissi,  I Maestri Stranieri , 1970, no. 4083 New York, Gagosian Gallery,  Picasso: Mosqueteros , 2009, n.n., pp. 132-33, illustrated in color