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Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection

Pablo Picasso

Nature morte à l'oiseau mort

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)


Nature morte à l'oiseau mort

signed Picasso (upper right); dated 4.2.39. (lower right)

oil on canvas

13 by 21 3/4 in. 

33.1 by 55.1 cm.

Executed on 4 February 1939.

Galerie Simon (Galerie Louise Leiris), Paris (acquired by circa 1944-46

Robert Livingston Gerry, Houston

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above by 1974)

James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1982)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in March 1982)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Harriet Janis and Sidney Janis, Picasso: The Recent Years, 1939-1946, Garden City, 1946, pl. 55, illustrated (in circa 1944-46 photograph of Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres 1939 et 1940, vol. X, Paris, 1959, no. 121, pl. 40, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945, 1998-99, fig. 3, p. 116, illustrated (in circa 1944-46 photograph of Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris)

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