Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Tête à l'oiseau
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Tête à l'oiseau
dated 9.4.71. and numbered II (on the reverse)
oil and Ripolin on canvas
21 ¾ by 18 ¼ in.
55.3 by 46.2 cm.
Executed on 9 April 1971.
Jacqueline Picasso, Mougins (acquired from the estate of the artist)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection
Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1988, lot 50 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2015, lot 189 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Rafael Alberti, Picasso, Le Rayon ininterrompu, Paris, 1974, no. 126, n.p., illustrated in color
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1971 à 1972, vol. XXXIII, Paris, 1978, no. 55, pl. 20, illustrated
Avignon, Palais des Papes, Picasso 1970-1972, 1973, no. 51, p. 62, illustrated
Reykjavik, Kjarvalsstadir, Picasso: Exposition Inattendue, 1986, no. 33, pp. 74-75, illustrated in color
Milan, Grimaldi Forum, Picasso in the Nahmad Collection, 2013, p. 380-81, illustrated in color
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