Pablo Picasso

Le Coq

Lot Closed

December 14, 06:18 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Campbell Family Collection, Canada

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Le Coq

Signed Picasso (center right); dated Paris 30 Decembre 1942 (lower right); dedicated Pour Jean-Louis Barrault (upper right)

Brush and ink and ink wash on the unbound frontispiece of comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle

14 1/2 by 22 in. (36.8 by 55.9 cm)

Executed in Paris on December 30, 1942.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Jean-Louis Barrault, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
David & Vivian Campbell, Toronto (acquired in March 2001)
Thence by descent