Pablo Picasso

Nu couché

signed -Picasso- (lower left)

peinture à l’essence, brush and ink and pen and ink on paper

9⅞ by 13⅞ in.

25 by 35.3 cm.

Executed in 1901.

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Pablo Picasso
Nu couché

signed -Picasso- (lower left)

peinture à l’essence, brush and ink and pen and ink on paper

9⅞ by 13⅞ in.

25 by 35.3 cm.

Executed in 1901.

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Marina Picasso, Geneva (by descent from the above)

Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above on 15 April 1997)

Christie's, New York, 6 October 2020, lot 22

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

Paris, Galeries Ambroise Vollard, Exposition de tableaux de F. Iturrino et de P. R. Picasso, 1901

Venice, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso: Opere dal 1895 al 1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 29, p. 162, illustrated

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Frankfurt, Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Pablo Picasso: Eine Ausstellung zum hundertsten Geburtstag, Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1981-1982, no. 20, p. 211, illustrated

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso: Works from the Marina Picasso Collection in Collaboration with Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva with Loans from Museums in Europe and the United States of America and Private Collections, 1984, no. 9, p. 18, illustrated in color

London, Lefevre Gallery, Picasso Works on Paper: Barcelona, Blue and Pink Periods, from the Collection of Marina Picasso, 1988, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in color

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1932 à 1937, vol. VI, Paris 1954, no. 353, pl. 43, illustrated

Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille, Picasso, The Blue and Rose Periods: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1900-1906, Neuchâtel 1966, no. V 79, p. 190, illustrated

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907, Barcelona 1980, no. 640, pp. 246, 535; p. 246, illustrated