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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2019 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 13 | $****** - ****** | Composition | |||
Dec 3, 2008 | Sotheby's | Paris | Impressionist and Modern Art | 27 | $****** - ****** | Composition | |||
May 7, 2003 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Part II | 337 | $****** - ****** | Composition |
Works on Paper
40.3 x 50.5 cm (15.88 x 19.88 in)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
signed, dated and inscribed 'Cannes 15 Juillet XXXIII Picasso' (upper right)
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris.
Dr Nahum Goldmann, Jerusalem, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 227.
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 337.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 3 December 2008, lot 27.
Acquired at the above sale.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 8, Oeuvres de 1932 à 1937, Paris, 1957, no. 116, n.p. (illustrated pl. 50).
R. Penrose & J. Golding, eds., Picasso in Retrospect, New York, 1973, no. 181, pp. 108 & 277 (illustrated p. 108).
U. Weisner, ed., Picassos Surrealismus, Werke 1925-1937, exh. cat., Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, 1991, no. 67a, p. 335 (illustrated; titled ‘Composition surréaliste’).
B. Léal, C. Piot & M.-L. Bernadac, Picasso Total, 1881-1973, Barcelona, 2000, p. 283 (illustrated fig. 682, p. 282; titled ‘Composición surrealista’).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939), Barcelona, 2011, pp. 158 & 436 (illustrated fig. 494, p. 158).
M. McCully, M. Raeburn & J.-L. Andral, Picasso: Cote d'Azur, exh. cat., Forum Grimaldi, Monaco, 2013, no. 45, p. 111 (illustrated).
signed, dated and inscribed 'Cannes 15 Juillet XXXIII Picasso' (upper right)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.2 x 50.5 cm.)
Executed in Cannes on 15 July 1933
