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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 37 | $****** - ****** | Buste de femme |
paintings
73 x 50.2 cm (28.74 x 19.76 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Picasso 29' (upper left)
Wildenstein et Cie., Paris and Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the artist, by 1930). Valentine Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1939). Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York (1939). Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, by 1950.
Prague, Exposition Umelecka Berada, 1931. Kunsthaus Zurich, Picasso, September-October 1932, p. 13, no. 183 (titled Frau im Profil). New York, Valentine Gallery, Picasso, 21 Paintings, 1908-1934, November 1938, no. 18. New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Wilmington Museum of Art; University of Pittsburgh; Springfield Museum of Art; Florida State College for Women; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum; Des Moines, Association of Fine Arts and Durham, Duke University, Classic and Romantic Traditions in Abstract Painting, November 1939-June 1940. Philadelphia, The Museum of Fine Art and Norfolk, The Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., January-May 1941, p. 106, no. 182 (illustrated). Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Works of Art Belonging to Alumnae, May-June 1950, no. 68. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection, April-May 1960, no. 47 (illustrated). New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Picasso, A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of Cancer Care, Inc., The National Cancer Foundation, April-May 1975 (illustrated in color; titled Black Sculpture). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, June-September 1994. Kunsthaus Zurich, Picasso, His First Museum Exhibition, 1932, October 2010-January 2011, p. 240, no. 183 (illustrated).
French and Other Modern Paintings, Together with a Group of American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, 11 April 1946, no. 32 (illustrated, p. 23; titled Sculpture Nègre; Femme). J. Merli, Picasso, Buenos Aires, 1948 (illustrated, pl. 370; titled Escultura negra). C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1955, vol. 7, no. 247 (illustrated, pl. 98). J. Thrall Soby, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York, 1960, no. 47. (illustrated; titled Black Sculpture). The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculptures, Toward Surrealism, 1925-1929, San Francisco, 1996, p. 188, no. 29-009 (illustrated). T. Bezzola, Picasso by Picasso, His First Museum Exhibition, 1932, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, 2010, p. 240, no. 183 (illustrated).
