Lot 147
  • 147

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Le peintre Carlos Casagemas
  • Signed Picasso (upper left)
  • Watercolor and ink on paper
  • 7 3/4 by 5 7/8 in.
  • 19.6 by 14.9 cm

Provenance

Jacques Seligmann, New York
Cole Porter, New York
Gifted from the above to the present owner's family
Thence by descent

Literature

Pierre Daix & George Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906, Catalogue raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint, Paris, 1966, no. D. I. 8, illustrated p. 116
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. VI, SupplĂ©ment des vol. I-V, Paris, 1972, no. 240, illustrated p. 30 
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, 1886-1906, vol. I, New York, 1991, illustrated p. 118
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, 1900-1901, San Francisco, 2002, no. 1900-030, illustrated p. 8

Condition

Sheet is time darkened and light-struck; some scatetred areas of staining (glue, foxing and discolored fibers) visible. Like many early works on paper by Picasso, this drawing was signed at a later date.
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