Lot 645
  • 645

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Deux personnages debout
  • dated 10.2.57. and numbered III (upper right); numbered III (lower left) and IV (lower right) 
  • brush and ink and wash on paper
  • 26.5 by 20.5cm., 10 1/2 by 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Picasso L'Africain, 1998, no. 41, illustrated in the catalogue p. 33
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie & New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Metamorphoses, Works from 1898 to 1973 from the Marina Picasso Collection, 2001-02, no. 92, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso de la caricatura a las metamorfosis de estilo, 2003, no. 262, illustrated in the catalogue
Cannes, Centre d'art La Malmaison, Picasso, le nu en liberté, Collection Marina Picasso, 2013, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount at intermittent points along the perimeter of the verso and is floating in its mount. The sheet is lightly time-stained with a few faint scattered spots of foxing. Some gentle creasing to the sheet particularly in the corners. This work is in good overall condition.
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