Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from a Private European Collection
Pablo Picasso
Morphinomanes
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Morphinomanes
signed Picasso (lower right)
oil and pastel on canvas
21¾ by 18¼ in.
55.2 by 46.4 cm
Executed in 1900.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Please refer to Sothebys.com for updated provenance on this lot.
Madame Besnard, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1923, lot 97 (consigned by the above)
Max Linder, Paris
Antonio Santamarina Irazusta, Argentina (acquired by 1930)
Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1974, lot 32 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, New York 1991, p. 168, illustrated
Buenos Aires, Jacques Helft, L'École de Paris, 1951, no. 53
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dibujos, Siglos XIX y XX, 1959, no. 64 (with incorrect dimensions)
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dibujos, Siglos XIX y XX, 1959, no. 64 (with incorrect dimensions)