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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | BUSTE DE FEMME (DORA MAAR) |
Works on Paper
67.5 x 44.5 cm (26.57 x 17.52 in)
Pen and ink on paper
Signed Picasso and dated 8.9.38. (center left)
Meric Callery, Boulogne-sur-Seine & New York (acquired in 1938)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis, The City Art Museum of St. Louis; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Museum of Art; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Durham, Duke University; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute; Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Art Gallery; Hanover, Dartmouth College; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College; Wellesley, Wellesley College; Sweet Briar, Sweet Briar College; Williamstown, Williams College; Bloomington, Indiana University Art Center Gallery; Alton, Monticello College, & Portland, Portland Art Museum, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, 1939-40, no. 357
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Callery Collection, Picasso-Léger, 1945, n.n., (titled Head of a Woman)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1937-1939, Paris, 1978, vol. IX, no. 220, illustrated pl. 106
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939). Barcelona, 2011, no. 1225, illustrated n.p.
Signed Picasso and dated 8.9.38. (center left)
Pen and ink on paper
26 5/8 by 17 1/2 in.
67.5 by 44.5 cm
Executed on September 8, 1938.
