Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
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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