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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 20 | $****** - ****** | Célestine |
Works on Paper
36.5 x 27 cm (14.37 x 10.63 in)
crayon on paper laid down on paper
Signed Picasso (lower left)
Acquired at the above sale; Mr. & Mrs. Josef Rosensaft (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 17, 1976, lot 43); O'Hana Gallery, London;
Sale: Versailles, Palais des Congrès, June 6, 1972, lot 105; Mme. M. Motte, Geneva (sold: November 18, 1961, lot 153); Sebastià Junyer Vidal, Barcelona
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Blue Period, 1902-1904, Barcelona and Paris, San Francisco, 2011, no. 1903/04-009, illustrated p. 184 (titled Study of Carlota Valdivia for "La Célestina" and as dating from 1903-04); Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York & Grand Palais, Paris, 1996-97, illustrated p. 242 (titled Study of Carlota Valdivia [Célestina]); Didier Imbert Fine Art, Picasso, La Célestine, Paris, 1988, no. 3, illustrated in color p. 35; Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980, illustrated p. 47; Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo (1881-1907), Barcelona, 1980, no. 957, illustrated in color p. 366 (titled La Célestina, mediadora and as dating from 1904); Pierre Daix & Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1966, no. IX.25, illustrated p. 227; Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, Paris, 1957, vol. I, no. 191, illustrated pl. 88 (with incorrect medium and illustrating erroneous signature, now removed); Jean Bouret, Picasso, dessins, Paris, 1950, p. 23; Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer, Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva, 1950, no. 153, illustrated in the catalogue
