This
lithograph, Clown
for Leiris,
was printed by Mourlot and announces an exhibition of drawings at the
Paris Galerie Louise Leiris.
That gallery, founded in 1920 by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler as the Galerie
Simon (named after Kahnweiler's partner, André Simon) was turned
over to Louise Leiris (Simon's daughter-in-law) in 1940, and then run
under her name. Picasso had a long-term working relationship with
the gallery.
The lithograph was printed in an edition of 2,000 copies on Arches
paper with the Mourlot watermark. Mourlot Atelier is where
Picasso created most of his lithographs after 1945.