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Lot 14
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Pablo Picasso

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • AUTOPORTRAIT AU BRAS LEVÉ
  • crayon sur papier
  • 27,5 x 20,2 cm
  • 10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.

Provenance

Marina Picasso, Genève (succession de l'artiste)
Galerie Krugier, Genève
Thomas Ammann, Zurich
Stanley J. Seeger, Londres (acquis auprès du précédent et vendu : Sotheby's, New York, The Stanley J. Seeger Collection of Works by Picasso, 4 novembre 1993, lot 401)
Gianni Versace (acquis lors de cette vente et vendu : Sotheby's, Londres, Works by Pablo Picasso from the Collection of Gianni Versace, 7 décembre 1999, lot 3)
Collection particulière, États-Unis (acquis lors de cette vente)

Exhibited

Mexico, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Los Picassos de Picasso en México, una exposición retrospectiva, 1982-83, no. 4 (titré Autorretrato desnudo)
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art & Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso. Masterpieces from the Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R., 1983, no. 16
Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern, Der Junge Picasso, Frühwerk und Blaue Periode, 1984, no. 165
Melbourne, The National Gallery of Victoria & Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, 1984, no. 11
Londres, The Lefevre Gallery, Picasso : Works on Paper, 1988
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Picasso Drawings, Watercolours, Pastels, 1988
Genève, Galerie Jan Krugier, Picasso, works on paper, Barcelona, Blue and Pink Periods. From the Collection of Marina Picasso, 1988, no. 18 (daté 1902-03)

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1983, vol. VI : Supplément aux volumes I à III, no. 456, reproduit pl. 56
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo 1881-1907, Infancia y Primera Juventud de un Demiurgo, Barcelone & Paris, 1980, no. 810, reproduit p. 320 (titré Autorretrato en actitud hierática)
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, Londres, 1991, vol. I : 1881-1906, reproduit p. 261 (daté 1902-03)
Marilyn McCully, Picasso : A Private Collection, Londres, 1993, reproduit p. 26
William Rubin, Picasso et le portrait, Milan, 1996, reproduit p. 128 (daté 1902-03)

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is attached to the mount at the top two corners and is floating in the over-mount. The sheet is very slightly wavy and the right and lower edges are slightly irregular. A close inspection reveals three small restored tears and some tiny flattened creases along the upper part of the left edge, and a small restored tear to the left of the figure’s face. Apart from some time-staining and a few scattered very faint spots of foxing, this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

pencil on paper. Executed in Paris in 1902.

"La plupart [des peintres] s'est misérablement bornée à reproduire le monde. Quand ils faisaient leur portrait, c'était en se regardant dans un miroir, sans songer qu'ils étaient eux-mêmes un miroir. [...] Picasso, passant par-dessus tous les sentiments de sympathie et d'antipathie [...], a systématiquement tenté – et il a réussi – de dénouer les mille complications des rapports entre la nature et l'homme, il s'est attaqué à cette réalité que l'on proclame intangible, quand elle n'est qu'arbitraire, il ne l'a pas vaincue, car elle s'est emparée de lui comme il s'est emparé d'elle. Une présence commune, indissoluble. [...] Picasso veut la vérité."

Paul Eluard (Préface du catalogue de l'exposition Hommage à Pablo Picasso, Paris, Grand Palais, 1966-67)