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Pablo Picasso

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