Lot 663
  • 663

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme dans un fauteuil
  • pencil on paper
  • 29.4 by 19.6 cm., 11 1/2 by 7 3/4 in.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Barcelona, Fundacio Caixa de Barcelona, Picasso Cubista 1907-1920, Collection Marina Picasso, 1987, no. 112 
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Pablo Picasso: Cubist works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1987, no. 38, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, Pablo Picasso: Focused on Cubist works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1988, no. 29, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée Picasso, Le miroir noir, Picasso, sources photo- graphiques 1900-1928, 1997, no. 137, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso and Photography, The Dark Mirror, 1997-98, n.n.
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso de la caricatura a las metamorfosis de estilo, 2003, no. 88, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1954, vol. VI, no. 1202, illustrated p. 144
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, Cubisme 1907-1917, Paris, 1990, no. 1208, illustrated p. 407
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso 1907-1917: The Painter of Modern Life, London, 1996, vol.II, illustrated p. 330

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the mount intermittently along the verso of the upper edge and floating in the mount. The sheet is time stained with a few spots of foxing in places and a thin old mat stain along the extreme perimeter. There is a flattened crease in the lower left corner and some further minor creasing to the right edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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