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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Christie's | London | Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I | 337 | $****** - ****** | Le Couple (Les Misérables) | |||
Jun 17, 1987 | Galerie Kornfeld | Bern | N/A | 135 | Estimates not disclosed | Le Couple-Les Miserables |
Works on Paper
34.6 x 25.8 cm (13.62 x 10.16 in)
charcoal on paper
signed Picasso (lower left)
Leo Stein (1872-1947) & Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), United States & Paris; probably acquired directly from the artist.
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), United States & Paris; by descent from the above in 1946.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884-1979), for Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris; acquired from the above.
Private collection, Switzerland; Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 1987, lot 135.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Paris, Galerie Berggruen & Cie., Picasso: Dessins 1903-1907 , May - July 1954, no. 10 (ill.).
Karlsruhe, Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg, Picasso - Zeichner des Menschen , October - December 1996, no. 13 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pablo Picasso - Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997 , pp. 14-15 (ill.) & 75.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers: Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch , March - October 2000, pp. 72 (ill.) & 106.
Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Spanische Pavillons der Expo 2000, Picasso: Die Umarmung , August - September 2000, no. 55 , pp. 146-147 (ill.) & 301; this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, October - December 2000.
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning , November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 1, p. 110 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Mit dem inneren Auge sehen - Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Hegewisch , September 2016 - January 2017, no. 24, pp. 58 (ill.) & 76.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso , vol. 6, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, Paris, 1954, no. 661 (ill. pl. 80).
E. Hoffmann, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions" , in: The Burlington Magazine, vol. 96, no. 618, London, September 1954, pp. 296 (ill.) & 298.
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le Couple (Les Misérables)
signed Picasso (lower left)
charcoal on paper
34,6 x 25,8 cm. (13 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Executed in 1904
