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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass | 40A | $****** - ****** | Portrait de Dora Maar endormie | |||
Jun 22, 2010 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | Portrait de Dora Maar endormie | |||
Oct 27, 1998 | Piasa | Paris | Important Paintings & Drawings by Picasso - Dora Maar Collection | 13 | $****** - ****** | Portrait de Dora Maar endormie |
Works on Paper
37.8 x 51.1 cm (14.88 x 20.13 in)
pencil on paper
Dora Maar, Paris (gift from the artist); Estate sale, Piasa, Paris, 27 October 1998, lot 13.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2010, lot 2.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Munich, Haus der Kunst; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité and Barcelona, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala L'Hospitalet, Dora Maar, October 2001-July 2002, p. 332, no. 174 (illustrated in color, p. 247).
Paris, Musée Picasso and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Picasso: Dora Maar, Il faisait tellement noir..., February-October 2006, p. 260, no. 143 (illustrated in color).
P. Eluard, A Pablo Picasso, Geneva, 1947, p. 167 (illustrated; titled Portrait de mademoiselle D.M. endormie).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 95 (illustrated, pl. 42).
J.P. Crespelle, Picasso and His Women, New York, 1969 (illustrated).
J. Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité, Geneva, 1971, p. 248 (illustrated).
(possibly) P. Cabanne, His Life and Times, New York, 1977, p. 295.
P. Daix, La vie de peintre de Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1977, no. 43 (illustrated, pl. 6; titled Dora endormie).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica, 1927-1939, Barcelona, 2011, p. 295, no. 917 (illustrated).
