Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property from an Important Boston Estate

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Boston Estate 


Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973 


Tête de femme

signed Picasso and dated 10.7.69. (upper right) 

oil, Ripolin and crayon on paper mounted on canvas 

26 ⅛ by 20 ⅜ in. 

66.1 by 51.6 cm. 

Executed on 10 July 1969.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 May 1975, lot 171 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Galerie Maurice, Inc. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Acquired from the above circa 1990 by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 310, pl. 92, illustrated