Lot 150
  • 150

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • FEMME À L'OISEAU
  • signed Picasso and dated 23.3.69. III (upper right); dated Dimanche 23.3.69. III on the reverse

  • brush and ink on paper
  • 25 by 32cm., 9 7/8 by 12 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Acquired by the father of the present owner (probably from the above)

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1969, Paris, 1976, vol. XXXI, no. 114, illustrated pl. 36
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Sixties III 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, no. 69-116, illustrated p. 128

Condition

Executed on thick cream wove paper, floating in the mount, attached to the mount at the top two corners. There is minor surface dirt along extreme bottom edge. This work is in very good original condition.
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