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Tête de femme by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme, 1909

Gouache and watercolor on paper
58 x 46.2 cm (22.83 x 18.19 in)
Works on Paper
Unique artwork
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (06 May 2009)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 6, 2009
Christie'sNew YorkImpressionist/Modern Evening Sale33
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Tête de femme
May 13, 1997
Sotheby'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Art (Part I)39
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Tête de femme
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Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

58 x 46.2 cm (22.83 x 18.19 in)

Materials

gouache and watercolor on paper

Signature

signed and inscribed 'Picasso ETUDE' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (until 1908). Johs. Roede, Oslo (by 1956). Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Saidenberg Gallery, New York (until 1963). John and Bernice Wintersteen, Pennsylvania (by 1964).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 October 1973, lot 25.

Private collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale).

Private collection, Europe (by descent from the above);

sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 May 1997, lot 39.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Picasso: Malerei, tegninger, gradikk, skulptur, keramikk, November-December 1956, no. 39 (illustrated). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1964. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1965. San Francisco, California Palace Legion of Honor and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, June-September 1966, no. 22. Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Picasso, February-March 1967, no. 160. Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, The Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, February-March 1969. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1970. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1971. New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Hommage to Picasso for his 90th Birthday, October 1971, p. 21, no. 6 (illustrated). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1972. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier, October 2003-May 2004, p. 54, no. 3 (illustrated in color).

Literature

J. Leymarie, Picasso: The Artist of the Century, London, 1971, p. 33 (illustrated). P. Daix and J. Rosselet, Picasso: The Cubist Years 1907-1916, London, 1979, p. 240, no. 267 (illustrated).