Impressionist and Modern Art Online
Impressionist and Modern Art Online
Standards of Excellence: The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection
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December 17, 05:13 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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.