Lot 57
  • 57

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Torero (from Le Carmen des Carmen)
  • ink and wash on paper
  • sheet: 12 3/4 by 9 3/4 in.
  • 32.5 by 24.9 cm.
  • executed in 1957

Provenance

Marcel Duhamel, 1958
Private American Collection
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Sebastian Goeppert, Herma Goeppert-Frank, Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Geneva, 1983, p. 306, no. 126 (the book Le Carmen des Carmen, is recorded as this number, but this page from the book is not illustrated)

Condition

generally good condition, minor smudge to lower right, framed against glass
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by a photocopy of a certificate from Heinz Berggruen to London Grafica Arts Inc., Detroit, dated Paris, March 28, 1967.