Modern Evening Auction

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Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Pablo Picasso

Femme au chat assise

Estimate

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

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)


Femme au chat assise

dated 2. and 8.5.64. and numbered III (on the reverse)

oil and Ripolin on canvas

45 ⅝ by 35 in.

116 by 89 cm.

Executed on 2 and 8 May 1964. 

Estate of the artist

Claude Ruiz Picasso, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Hauser & Wirth

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Hélène Parmelin, Picasso, Notre Dame de Vie: Secrets d’alcôve d’un atelier, Paris, 1966, p. 103, illustrated in color

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1964, vol. XIV, Paris, 1971, no. 139, pl. 46, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Who’s Who, 2011

New York, Gagosian, Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, 2019, p. 138; p. 139 and n.p., illustrated in color (titled Femme assise tenant un petit chat)

Gstaad, Hauser & Wirth, Picasso through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan, 2020