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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 5, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 41 | $****** - ****** | Tete de femme (La lectrice - Dora Maar) |
paintings
66 x 51 cm (25.98 x 20.08 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Picasso', u.l.
Mary Callery, New York & Paris (acquired by 1940)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1966)
Basil Goulandris (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection, Japan Heinz Berggruen, Berlin (acquired from the above in 2000)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen (on loan); Paris, Musée National Picasso, Picasso/Berggruen: une collection particulière, 2006-07, illustrated in color in the catalog (titled Lectrice, Dora Maar)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. OEuvres de 1937 ÃÂ 1939, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 128, illustrated pl. 63 The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939, San Francisco, 1997, no. 38-061, illustrated p. 150
