Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Buste d'homme
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Distinguished Private Collector
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Buste d'homme
signed Picasso (lower left); dated 20.10.69. and numbered II (on the reverse)
oil and Ripolin on canvas
45 ⅞ by 35 ¼ in.
116.4 by 89.6 cm.
Executed on 20 October 1969.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Briest Scp., 20 November 1989, lot 44
Private Collection, France
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Briest, Scp., 21 November 1995, lot 35 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Monaco (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above circa 2002 by the present owner
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 471, pl. 141, illustrated
Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1982, no. 188, n.p., illustrated in color
Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon, commentaires à une peinture en mouvement, Paris, 1971, no. 188, n.p., illustrated; pp. 152 and 237
Avignon, Palais des Papes, Pablo Picasso, 1969-1970, 1970, no. 98, pl. 98, illustrated
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