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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 17, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 485 | $****** - ****** | Guitare sur une table | |||
Jun 19, 2013 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 31 | $****** - ****** | Guitare Sur Une Table | |||
May 6, 2004 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 139 | $****** - ****** | Guitare sur table |
Works on Paper
48.9 x 64.1 cm (19.25 x 25.25 in)
charcoal on paper
Gertrude Stein, Paris, by circa 1912 , and thence by descent.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1968.
Marlborough Gallery, New York, by 1970.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above in the 1970s; sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 6 May 2004, lot 139.
Stanley J. Seeger, Milwaukee & London, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby"s, London, 19 June 2013, lot 31.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family , December 1970 - March 1971, no. 53, pp. 171 & n.p. (inverted image illustrated n.p.; illustrated again in situ n.p.; titled "Study for Guitar on a Table", dated "Winter 1912-1913", with inverted dimensions and incorrect medium).
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d"Arte, Pablo Picasso: opere dal 1912 al 1972 , November 1974 - January 1975, no. 3, n.p. (illustrated on the cover & n.p.; titled "Étude pour "Guitare sur une table").
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and The Parisian Avant-Garde, May - September 2011, no. 377, pp. 447 & 465 (illustrated in situ p. 374); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Grand Palais, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso... L"aventure des Stein , October 2011 - January 2012, no. 148, p. 340 (illustrated); and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February - June 2012.
P. Daix & J. Rosselet, Picasso, The Cubist Years, 1907-1916, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works , London, 1979, p. 286 (mentioned under nos. 507 & 508).
P. Karmel, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism , New Haven, 2003, no. 239, p. 173 (inverted image illustrated p. 172; titled "Study for Guitar on a Table", with incorrect medium and inverted dimensions).
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Guitare sur une table
charcoal on paper
19 ¼ x 25 ¼ in. (49 x 64.2 cm.)
Executed in Paris in Autumn 1912
