Lot 408
  • 408

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Homme et femme nus
  • Signed Picasso and dated 1.7.67. IX (lower left); dated 1.7.67. (on the verso)
  • Pencil and colored crayon on paper
  • 14 3/8 by 20 3/8 in.
  • 36.5 by 51.7 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Bernice Johnston Winston, London 
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 12, 1987, lot 241
Pietro Carrera, Florence
Acquired from the above

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1967 et 1968, vol. XXVII, Paris, 1973, no. 45, illustrated pl. 13
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculptures, The Sixties II, 1964-1967, San Francisco, 2002. no. 67-264, illustrated p. 361

Condition

Executed on cream-colored wove paper Top and right edge are deckled, bottom and left edge are cut. Faint mat stain around the perimeter of the work and the sheet is slightly time darkened overall. Some stains on the verso of the sheet, not apparent on the recto. Repaired tear two inches in length extending down from the top edge in to the female figure's hair. Otherwise fine. Work is in generally good condition.
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