Lot 139
  • 139

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • HOMME À L'AGNEAU ET MUSICIEN
  • signed Picasso and dated 9.1.67 III (upper left)
  • wax crayon on paper
  • 49.5 by 60.7cm., 19 1/2 by 23 7/8 in.

Provenance

Lionel Prejer, Paris
Private Collection (acquired from the above; sale: Christie's, London, 26th June 2003, lot 430)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

Exhibited

Oslo, Galleri Haaken, Picasso: Peintures - Sculptures - Dessins, 2004, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

René Char & Charles Feld, Picasso. Dessins 27.3.66-15.3.68, Paris, 1969, no. 74, illustrated
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1967 et 1968, Paris, 1973, vol. XXVII, no. 421, illustrated pl. 176
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties II 1964-1967, San Francisco, 2002, no. 67-020, illustrated p. 272

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at all four corners, floating in the mount. The upper edge is perforated. There is the maker's watermark imprinted along the extreme left edge of the sheet running down the left edge. This work is in good original condition. Colours: the paper tone is slightly warmer in the original.
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