A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme (Françoise)

Auction Closed

November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)


Tête de femme (Françoise)

stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue 

bronze

height: 19 ⅝ in. 50 cm. 

Conceived in 1951 and cast in an edition of 2.


The Comité Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Estate of the artist

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1986)

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 91 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United States (acquired at the above sale through Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago)

Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (acquired from the above through Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago in 1997)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner





Hélène Parmelin, Picasso, Les Dames de Mougins, Secrets d’alcôve d’un atelier, Paris, 1964, p. 73, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais and Petit Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, 1966-67, no. 301, illustration of another cast 

Hélène Parmelin, Picasso: Women, Cannes and Mougins, 1954-1963, 1967, p. 73, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Picasso, Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Work, 1967, no. 116, p. 72, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1967-68, no. 110, p. 131, illustration of another cast

Werner Spies, Sculpture by Picasso with a Catalogue of the Works, New York, 1971, no. 412, p. 212, illustration of another cast; p. 309

Exh. Cat., Nationalgalerie Berlin, Pablo Picasso. Das plastiche Werk, 1983-84, no. 412, p. 232; p. 353, illustration of another cast

Pierre Descargues, John Russel and Edward Quinn, Picasso, Paris1974, n.p., illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Dominique Bozo, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Michèle Richet and Hélène Seckel-Klein, Picasso Museum, Paris: Painting, Papier Collés, Picture Reliefs, Sculptures, Ceramics, Paris, 1985, n.p., illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso: der Maler und seine Modelle, 1986, no. 105, p. 70, illustration of another cast

Edward Quinn and Pierre Daix, The Private Picasso, Boston, 1987, p. 62, illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Picasso: Sculptor/ Painter, 1994, p. 251, illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Werner Spies and Christine Piot, Picasso: The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 412, p. 373, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Picasso, The Mediterranean Years1945-1962, 2010, p. 312, illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Paris–Vallauris1943-1953, 2012, p. 243, illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso Sculpture, 2016, p. 202, illustration of the plaster version (in the artist's Vallauris studio)

Geneva, Petit Palais, Musée d’Art Moderne, Picasso, Passion et création. Les 30 dernières années, 1998, no. 8, p. 22, illustrated in color; p. 106, illustration of another cast (in the artist's Vallauris studio); p. 117