PABLO PICASSO | TÊTE DE FEMME ENDORMIE

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation

PABLO PICASSO

1881 - 1973

TÊTE DE FEMME ENDORMIE

Signed Picasso, inscribed Boisgeloup and dated 12 juillet XXXIV (lower center)

Oil on canvas

13 by 18⅛ in.

33 by 46 cm

Painted on July 12, 1934.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Galerie Simon, Paris (acquired by 1940)

Galerie Percier, Paris

Perls Gallery, New York (acquired by 1956)

Dr. H. Carey Walker, Hartford, Connecticut (acquired before 1959 and sold: Sotheby's, London, July 6, 1960, lot 126)

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired by 1961)

Carmen & David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above on July 19, 1962)

Bequest of the above

Henri Dorra, The Kreeger Collection, Washington, D.C., 1970

Margy P. Sharpe, ed., The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 78