Lot 183
  • 183

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • La Famille de l'artiste & La Fille de l'artiste (A Double-Sided Work)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 8 1/4 by 10 1/2 in.
  • 21 by 26.5 cm

Provenance

Marie-Thérèse Walter, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 1988, lot 176)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 1989, lot 144)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Une Collection Picasso, 1973, no. 115 (recto) & no. 199 (verso

Literature

Josep Palau i Fabre, Pare Picasso, Barcelona, 1977, no. 19, illustrated pl. 21
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Europe at War, 1939-1940, San Francisco, 2013, nos. 40-345 & 40-346, illustrated p. 188

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on beige laid paper. The sheet has been affixed to a window mount at several places around the perimeter on the verso. Sheet is slightly time stained and has extremely minor creases and undulations.
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