Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Guitare sur un tapis rouge

signed Picasso and dated 22 (lower right)

oil on canvas

80.7 by 116.3 cm. 31¾ by 45¾ in.

Executed in 1922.

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the artist)

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York

Paul Willert, Paris, New York and London (acquired by 1939 and until at least 1971)

Private Collection, London

Christie’s, London, 2 February 2004, lot 40

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Milan, 1932, pl. I, illustrated in colour

Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Completa e veridica istoria di Picasso e del cubismo, Turin, 1945, pl. XXI, illustrated in colour (titled Nature morte)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1920 à 1922, vol. IV, Paris, 1951, no. 440, pl. 182, illustrated

Alfred H. Barr, Picasso Fifty Years of his Art, New York, 1966, p. 126, illustrated

Christopher Green, Léger and the Avant-Garde, New Haven and London, 1976, no. 184, pp. XV and 270-271, illustrated (titled Tapis rouge)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, 1939-40, no. 166, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, European and American Paintings, 1942-43

London, Tate Gallery, Picasso, 1960, no. 99, pl. 26e, illustrated

London, Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, 1970-71, no. 120, p. 105 (titled Le Tapis Rouge)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Paintings, 1983, no. 12, illustrated in colour (titled Guitar on a Red Table)

New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Picasso's Bodegones, 2008, no. 13, p. 43, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Picasso dans la Collection Nahmad, 2013, pp. 92-93, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Liège, La Boverie and Paris, Musée Maillol, 21 rue la Boétie, 2016-17, no. 26, p. 203, illustrated in colour (Liège); p. 197, illustrated in colour (Paris) (with incorrect measurements)

New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, The Climax of Cubism, 2019, illustrated in colour

Sète, Musée Paul Valéry, Paul Valéry et les Peintres: Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso..., 2020-21, no. 44, p. 150, a detail illustrated in colour; pp. 151 and 252 , illustrated in colour

Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Picasso. Chanel, 2022-23, no. 38, p. 91, illustrated in colour