Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property from the Neumann Family Collection

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 12:00 AM GMT

Estimate

9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Neumann Family Collection

Pablo Picasso

(1881 – 1973)


Buste de femme

signed Picasso (upper left); dated 24.3.49. (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

24 by 19 5/8 in.

61 by 50 cm. 

Executed on 24 March 1949.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above on 2 October 1951)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1946 à 1953, vol. XV, Paris, 1965, no. 137, pl. 81, illustrated (as oil on paper)

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Selected Works, 1980-81, no. 89, p. 92, illustrated; p. 141 (titled Woman in Blue and dated 1948)