Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from the Neumann Family Collection
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)
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