Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

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Pablo Picasso

Nature morte aux fleurs et au compotier

Auction Closed

October 24, 01:48 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Nature morte aux fleurs et au compotier


Signed Picasso (lower left); dated 14 Septembre 43 (center right & on the reverse)

Oil on canvas

31 7/8 by 39 1/2 in. 81 by 100.5 cm

Painted on September 14, 1943.

Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid.

Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist in 1947)

Himan Brown, New York (and sold: Christie’s, New York, May 15, 1990, lot 60)

Private Collection

PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above)

Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on April 10, 1998)

Acquired from the above

Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: Portraits et Souvenirs, Paris, 1946, illustrated n.p.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1943 et 1944, vol. XIII, Paris, 1962, no. 128, illustrated pl. 69 (with inverted dimensions)
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Basket of Fruit and Pitcher of Flowers and Cattails; Still Life with Flowers and Fruit Dish; Still Life with Fruit Dish and Yellow Vase” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 113
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Basket of Fruit and Pitcher of Flowers and Cattails; Still Life with Flowers and Fruit Dish; Still Life with Fruit Dish and Yellow Vase” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 135
Los Angeles, Stendahl Galleries, 1947
New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, The First World-Showing of Paintings of 1947 by Picasso, 1948, no. 13, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Nature Morte au Miroire)
Los Angeles, PaceWildenstein, Pablo Picasso: Works from the Estate and Selected Loans, 1998
Las Vegas, Picasso Restaurant, Bellagio, 1998-2021