Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

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Pablo Picasso

Pierrot

Auction Closed

October 24, 01:48 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Pierrot


Signed Picasso and dated 1917 (lower left)

Brush and ink on paper laid down on board

24 1/4 by 19 1/4 in. 61.5 by 49 cm

Executed in Montrouge in 1917.

Galerie Käte Perls, Paris
John W. Warrington, Cincinnati (acquired by 1939 and sold: Christie’s, New York, May 14, 1997, lot 4)
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1917 à 1919, vol. III, Paris, 1949, no. 13, illustrated pl. 5
Douglas Cooper, Picasso Theater, New York, 1968, illustrated n.p.
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. 139
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. 161
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926), Cologne, 1999, illustrated p. 89
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago & Cincinnati, Cincinnati Museum of Art & Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, 1939-40, no. 131, illustrated in the catalogue
Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, The Modern Art Society: The Center’s Early Years, 1979, n.n.
Las Vegas, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Bellagio, 1998-99
Las Vegas, Picasso Restaurant, Bellagio, 1999
Las Vegas, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Bellagio, 1999-2000
Las Vegas, Picasso Restaurant, Bellagio, 2000-2021