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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 6, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 410 | $****** - ****** | Homme À La Besace | |||
May 14, 1986 | Sotheby's | New York | N/A | 120 | Estimates not disclosed | Homme a la besace |
Works on Paper
33.6 x 23 cm (13.23 x 9.06 in)
conte crayon on paper
Bearing the signature Picasso (lower left)
Santiago Laporta, Barcelona. Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired from the above by 1932). Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (a gift from the above and sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 22, 1981, lot 834).
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale and sold:
Christie's, New York, May 17, 1984, lot 124).
Private Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale and sold:
Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1986, lot 120).
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Picasso, 1932, no. 271 (titled Lastträger). Buenos Aires, Galería Müller, Picasso, 1934, no. 35 (titled Cargadores). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 19th and 20th Century Masterpieces, Arranged Courtesy of the Thannhauser Foundation, 1965, no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue
"La Pintura y La Escultura Allende los Pirineos," in El Liberal, no. 848, August 10, 1903, illustrated on the front page. Alejandro Cirici Pellicer, Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva, 1950, illustrated p. 165. Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, vol. I, Paris, 1957, no. 190, illustrated pl. 88 (with incorrect medium). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, A Picture Book of 19th and 20th Century Masterpieces from the Thannhauser Foundation, New York, 1972, no. 38, illustrated p. 51. Richard J. Wattenmaker, Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition, Toronto, 1975, fig. 31, illustrated p. 170. Vivian Endicott Barnett, The Guggenheim Museum, The Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, New York, 1978, no. 38, illustrated p. 125. Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 908, illustrated p. 350. The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Blue Period 1902-1904, Barcelona and Paris, San Francisco, 2011, no. 1903-111, illustrated p. 137
