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Spirit of Color: Property from an Important Canadian Estate

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme, profil

Irrevocable BidsGuaranteed Property

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Spirit of Color: Property from an Important Canadian Estate

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Tête de femme, profil

signed Picasso (upper center); dated 29.11.63 (upper left)

brush and ink, ink wash, wax resist, gouache and charcoal on paper

29 ⅞ by 24 ⅞ in.

75.9 by 60.9 cm.

Executed on 29 November 1963.

Please note that the medium of this lot has been updated.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Private Collection

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 22 May 1981, lot 924 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1962 et 1963, vol. XXIII, Paris, 1971, no. 359, pl. 149, illustrated (with incomplete medium) (recto)

Georges Bloch, Picasso: Catalogue of the Printed and Graphic Work, 1904-1967, vol. I, Bern, 1984, no. 931, p. 202 (verso)

Bernhard Geiser and Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur. Tome V. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes. 1959-1965, Bern, 1989, no. 1260.A.II.b, p. 330 (verso)