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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit the Scharf-Gerstenberg Foundation

Pablo Picasso

La Glace

Auction Closed

November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit the Scharf-Gerstenberg Foundation

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


La Glace

signed Picasso (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

9 ½ by 5½ in. 24 by 14 cm.

Executed in January-March 1912.

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris

Vincenc Kramář, Prague (acquired from the above on 7 August 1912)

Vincenc Kramář II, Prague (acquired by descent from the above in 1960)

Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich

Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above circa 1963-64)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1906 à 1912, vol. II, Paris, 1942, no. 305, p. 148, illustrated

Vincenc Kramár, Otázky moderního umění, K problémům umění první poloviny 20. století, Prague, 1958, no. 19, illustrated and illustrated on the front cover

Miroslav Lamač, "Picasso in den Jahren 1907—1913," Alte und Moderne Kunst, vol. IV, no. 3, 1959, p. 17, illustrated

Jiri Padrta, Picasso: The Early Years, New York, 1960, p. 5, pl. 19, illustrated in color

Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Picasso, 1907-1916, Paris, 1977, no. 451, pp. 109-10, illustrated

Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint 1907-1916, Neuchâtel, 1979, no. 455, p. 276, illustrated 

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Cubism (1907-1917), Barcelona, 1990, no. 658, p. 238, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kubismus in Prag 1909-1925, p. 34, illustrated (in a 1931 photograph of Vincenc Kramář's apartment)

Exh. Cat., Prague, Národní galerie, Vincenc Kramář, from Old Masters to Picasso, 2000-01, p. 21, illustrated (in a 1931 photograph of Vincenc Kramář's apartment)

Jana Claverie, Vincenc Kramář: un théoricien et collectionneur du cubisme à Prague, Paris, 2002, p. 102, illustrated; p. 263, illustrated (in a 1931 photograph of Vincenc Kramář's apartment)

Vincenc Kramář, Le Cubisme, Paris, 2002, p. 91, illustrated (in a 1931 photograph of Vincenc Kramář's apartment)

Pavel Štěpánek, Picasso en Praga, Madrid, 2005, fig. 29, p. 89, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Prague, Národní galerie, Picasso in the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague, 2008-09, pp. 16 and 19

Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris-Prague 1906-1930: Picasso Braque de Prague et leurs contemporainstchèques, 1966, p. 180 (titled La Coupe de glace)