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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 17 | $****** - ****** | BUSTE DE FEMME DE PROFIL (FEMME ÉCRIVANT) | |||
Nov 12, 1997 | Sotheby's | New York | The Evelyn Sharp Collection of Modern Art | 26 | $****** - ****** | BUSTE DE FEMME DE PROFIL (FEMME ÉCRIVANT) |
paintings
116.3 x 73.5 cm (45.79 x 28.94 in)
oil on canvas
signed Picasso (upper left), dated 1 Avril XXXII on the stretcher
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (acquired from the artist in 1965)
Saidenberg Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
Evelyn Sharp (acquired from the above on 27th April 1965. Sold: Sotheby’s, New York, The Evelyn Sharp Collection of Modern Art, 12th November 1997, lot 26)
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2003)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Evelyn Sharp Collection, 1978, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (titled Femme écrivant)
Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1935, no. 1-4, illustrated p. 149 (titled Peinture)
Editions Cahiers d’Art, Picasso 1930-1935, Paris, 4th January 1936, illustrated p. 13 (titled Peinture)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1926 à 1932, Paris, 1955, vol. 7, no. 406, illustrated pl. 179
Picasso 1932 (exhibition catalogue), Musée National Picasso, Paris, 2017-18, illustrated in colour p. 141
signed Picasso (upper left); dated 1 Avril XXXII on the stretcher
oil on canvas
116.3 by 73.5cm.
45 3/4 by 28 7/8 in.
Painted in Boisgeloup on 1st April 1932.
