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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 28, 2025 | Hindman Auctions | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art | 6 | $****** - ****** | Tête d"Homme (with Deux Têtes verso); A Double-Sided Drawing |
Works on Paper
29.8 x 21.6 cm (11.75 x 8.5 in)
pencil on wove paper
dated and numbered 22. 3. 69. I (top left recto); signed Picasso and dated and numbered again 22. 3. 69. II (top left verso)
Unframed.
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Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, France.
Collection of Herman C. Goldsmith, New York, February 17, 1971.
Acquired directly from the above.
Collection of Mr. Harold M. Rapp.
The Estate of Harold M. Rapp.
By descent in the Rapp family to the present owner.
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Christian Zervos,
Pablo Picasso
, Éditions Cahiers d"Art, Paris, 1932-1978, Vol. 31, no. 109 & 110, p. 36 (both illustrated).
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In early 1969, late in his life and career, Pablo Picasso embarked on a series of paintings he called
Portraits Imaginaires
, or
Imaginary Portraits
, bursts of color and playfulness that referred to favorite subjects found in paintings by Rembrandt, or in literary classics by William Shakespeare, Honoré de Balzac, or Alexandre Dumas.
Painted quickly on discarded pieces of corrugated cardboard that accompanied an art supply shipment, the works were theatrical, whimsical and bright, and later adapted into a suite of twenty-nine lithographs by the printmaker Marcel Salinas. Created between 1969 and 1972, the suite was published posthumously in 1973 by Salinas.
The present double-sided drawing,
Tête d"Homme
(with
Deux Têtes
verso), dates from this period. Executed in March 1969, it recalls Rembrandt"s seventeenth-century Dutch dandies while evoking Alexandre Dumas"
Three Musketeers
, all attired in Louis XIII garments. With their swirling hair, beards, and playful gazes, these figures offer a stylized, fantastical guise for Picasso"s late-career reimaginings of a familiar and nostalgic theme. For the artist, the Musketeers embodied masculinity, vitality, power, and strength-and have even been described by art historians as his “alter ego,” a notion made all the more poignant by the fact that Picasso"s health appeared to slightly decline at the time this drawing was created, the artist recovering from an invasive stomach surgery a few years prior.
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish, 1881-1973)
Tête d"Homme (with Deux Têtes verso), 1969 | A Double-Sided Drawing
pencil on wove paper
dated and numbered 22. 3. 69. I (top left recto); signed Picasso and dated and numbered again 22. 3. 69. II (top left verso)
Please note this lot will be on view at Freeman"s | Hindman Manhattan galleries, located at 32 E. 67th St, from October 20th to October 27th (10am-5pm).
11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (29.8 x 21.6cm)
Property from a Private New York City Family Collection.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
