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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 1A | $****** - ****** | Guitare pendue au mur |
paintings
27 x 35.2 cm (10.63 x 13.88 in)
oil and black Conté crayon on canvas
signed and dated 'Picasso 27' (lower left)
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler), Paris.
André Lefèvre, Paris (by 1950).
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York.
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, by December 1968.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter & Dora Maar, February 1994-January 1995, pp. 143-144 and 171, note 24 (illustrated, p. 144, fig. 103).
Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, Picasso: The Love and The Anguish–The Road to Guernica, October 1995-March 1996, p. 200, no. 70 (illustrated in color, p. 201).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation, April 1996-January 1997, p. 343 (illustrated in color; titled Hanging Guitar with Profile).
Vancouver Art Gallery, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses, June-October 2016, pp. 59 and 152 (illustrated in color, p. 59, fig. 41).
London, National Portrait Gallery and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso Portraits, October 2016-June 2017, p. 241, no. 113 (illustrated in color, p. 132; titled Guitar Hanging on a Wall with Profile).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1955, vol. 7, no. 54 (illustrated prior to signature, pl. 25).
J.S. Boggs, Picasso and Things, exh. cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992, p. 224 (illustrated, fig. 88d; dated 1926).
J.M. Faerna, Picasso, New York, 1994, p. 103.
I. Mössinger, B. Ritter and K. Drechsel, eds., Picasso et les femmes, exh. cat., Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 2002, p. 167 (illustrated in color, p. 168, fig. 9; titled Guitare et profil).
M. Müller, ed., Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: Between Classicism and Surrealism, exh. cat., Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, 2004, p. 40 (titled Guitar and Profile).
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, New York, 2007, vol. III, p. 332 (illustrated; titled Guitar with Profile of Marie-Thérèse and Monogram).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From The Minotaur to Guernica, 1927-1939, Barcelona, 2011, p. 428, no. 38 (illustrated in color, p. 32).
J. Richardson and D. Widmaier-Picasso, L'amour fou: Picasso and Marie-Thérèse, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011, p. 64 (illustrated in color, fig. 7; titled Guitare accrochée au mur avec profil).
S. d'Alessandro, Picasso and Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Works, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 2013, p. 112 (illustrated in color, p. 65, pl. 46; titled Head (Hanging Guitar with Profile)).
J. Melius, "Inscription and Castration in Picasso's The Painter and His Model" in October 151, Winter 2015, p. 57 (illustrated; titled Guitar with Profile).
signed and dated 'Picasso 27' (lower left)
oil and black Conté crayon on canvas
10 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (27.1 x 35.2 cm.)
Executed in 1927
