Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from the Phillips Family Collection
Buste de femme
Auction Closed
November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
18,000,000 - 25,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Phillips Family Collection
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Buste de femme
signed Picasso (upper right)
gouache on paper mounted on board
25 by 19 ¼ in. 63.7 by 49 cm.
Executed in Spring 1909.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Mrs. Stead H. Stead-Ellis, London (acquired by 1953)
Lazarus Phillips, Montreal (acquired in 1956)
Thence by descent from the above
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1906 à 1912, vol. II*, Paris, 1942, no. 142, pl. 73, illustrated
Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Picasso, 1907-1916, Paris, 1977, no. 247, illustrated
Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Picasso, the Cubist Years, 1907-1916: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works, London, 1979, no. 246, p. 236, illustrated
Anatoly Podoksik, Picasso: The Artist's Works in Soviet Museums, New York and Leningrad, 1989, no. 435, n.p., illustrated
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Cubism (1907-1917), Barcelona, 1990, no. 333, p. 120, illustrated (titled Torso of Bather)
London, The Lefevre Gallery, Picasso 1898-1936, 1953, no. 8, p. 8, illustrated
The Art Gallery of Toronto and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso and Man, 1964, no. 51, p. 64, illustrated (exhibited in Montreal only)
New York, The Frick Collection and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Picasso's Drawings 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition, 2011-12, no. 41, p. 181, illustrated in color