Lot 209
  • 209

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • HOMME ET FEMME II
  • signed Picasso and dated 7.7.67 II (lower left)
  • brush and ink on paper
  • 49.2 by 60.8cm., 19 3/8 by 23 7/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection Sweden

Literature

Charles Feld, Picasso: His Recent Drawings 1966-68, New York, 1969, no. 212
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Ĺ’uvres de 1967 et 1968, Paris, 1973, vol. XXVII, no. 58, illustrated pl. 17
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties II, 1964-1967, San Francisco, 2002, no. 67-282, illustrated p. 366

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at intervals around all four edges, floating in the mount. The upper edge is perforated. Apart from some minor nicks and tears along the top edge, and some light surface dirt, this work is in good condition. Colours: overall fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration.
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