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Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Pablo Picasso

Nu couché accoudé

VAT reduced rateArtist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Nu couché accoudé

signed Picasso, dated 1919 and dedicated A mon cher H. Pierre Roché (upper left)

pencil on paper

21 by 27.2 cm. 8¼ by 10¾ in.

Framed: 42.4 by 48.5 cm. 16⅝ by 19⅛ in.

Executed in Saint-Raphaël in 1919.

Henri-Pierre Roché, France (acquired from the artist)

Graham Reid, London

Miss Maxine Samuels, Toronto (acquired by 1964)

Blair Laing Gallery, Toronto

Yaneff Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above in the 1980s)

Christie's, New York, 10 November 1994, lot 223 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Beres, Paris

Acquired from the above in 1996 by the present owners

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux années 1914 - 1919, vol. 29, Paris, 1975, no. 461, pl. 170, illustrated

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto and Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso and Man, 1964, no. 71a, p. 82

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Picasso at Large in Toronto Collections, 1988, no. 24, p. 16

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