Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit the Scharf-Gerstenberg Foundation
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)
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