Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Pablo Picasso

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