Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection
Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection
Pablo Picasso
Buste d'homme
Auction Closed
October 24, 01:48 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Buste d'homme
Signed Picasso (upper right); dated 10.9.69 and numbered II (on the reverse)
Oil and Ripolin on canvas
51 1/4 by 38 1/8 in. 130.3 by 97 cm
Painted on September 10, 1969.
Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on September 19, 1997)
Acquired from the above
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on September 19, 1997)
Acquired from the above
Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Man)
Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon. Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement, Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Homme)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 420, illustrated pl. 120 (before the artist’s signature)
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 144
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 166
Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon. Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement, Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Homme)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 420, illustrated pl. 120 (before the artist’s signature)
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 144
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 166