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Standards of Excellence: The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection

PABLO PICASSO | PORTRAIT DE PICASSO ET NUS

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December 17, 05:13 PM GMT

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25,000 - 35,000 USD

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PABLO PICASSO

(1881 - 1973)

PORTRAIT DE PICASSO ET NUS


Signed Picasso (lower right)

Pen and ink and pencil on paper 

9½ by 12½ in. (24 by 31.8 cm)

Framed: 17⅝ by 20⅝ in. (44.8 by 52.4 cm)

Executed in 1905. 

Leo & Gertrude Stein, Paris (acquired from the artist circa 1905)

Alice B. Toklas, Paris (by descent from the above in 1946)

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired by 1954)

Berggruen Gallery, Paris 

Acquired from the above circa 1968

Gertrude Stein, Picasso, London, 1938, illustrated on the title page

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, vol. VI, Paris, 1954, no. 666, illustrated pl. 81

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue), San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Paris, Musée National-Grand Palais & New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011-12, no. 305

Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, no. 103, illustrated in color p. 100

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, 1970-71, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso... L’Aventure des Stein, 2011-12, n.n.