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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 35 | $****** - ****** | Le Baiser |
paintings
97 x 130 cm (38.19 x 51.18 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Picasso (upper left); dated 24.10.69/II on the reverse
Private Collection, France
Galerie Schmit, Paris. Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris . Private Collection, Paris. Galerie Beyeler, Basel . Acquired from the above in 1985
Avignon, Palais des Papes, Pablo Picasso 1969-1970, 1970, no. 103, illustrated in the catalogue (not signed in the illustration). Dallas Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, 1987-88, no. 100, illustrated in the catalogue. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Cinq siècles d'art espagnol: Le Siècle de Picasso, 1987-88, no. 184, illustrated in color in the catalogue. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, 1997, illustrated in color in the catalogue. Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, From Rodin to Calder: Masterworks of Modern Sculpture from the Nasher Collection, 2003-04. Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Bodies Past and Present: The Figurative Tradition in the Nasher Collection, 2004-05. Durham, North Carolina, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Evolution of the Nasher Collection (exhibition catalogue), 2005-06, illustrated in color in the catalogue. Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Eros: Rodin und Picasso (exhibition catalogue), 2006, no. 81, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1971, no. 58, illustrated in color (not signed in the illustration). Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1969, vol. 31, Paris, 1976, no. 483, illustrated pl. 145 (not signed in the illustration). The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, no. 69-484, illustrated p. 261 (not signed in the illustration). Diana Widmaier Picasso, Picasso, "Art Can Only Be Erotic," New York, 2005, illustrated in color p. 105
