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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 64A | $****** - ****** | La Lettre (La Réponse) |
paintings
100.3 x 81 cm (39.5 x 31.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated ‘Picasso 23’ (lower right), dated '16 Avril-23' (on the stretcher)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the artist, circa 1926).
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired from the above, by 1940).
Sarah Campbell-Blaffer, Houston (acquired from the above, 30 August 1946).
Cecil “Titi” Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (by descent from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc. and The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Recent Works by Picasso, November 1923-January 1924, no. 9.
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d’oeuvres nouvelles de Picasso, March-April 1924, no. 20.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 1934 International Exhibition of Paintings, October-December 1934, no. 188.
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Montevideo, Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Pintura Francesa: De David a Nuestros Días, July 1939-April 1940, p. 148, no. 186 and p. 99, no. 149, respectively (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, The Painting of France Since the French Revolution, December 1940-January 1941 and November 1941-January 1942, p. 39, no. 150 (with incorrect dimensions).
Los Angeles County Museum, Aspects of French Paintings from Cézanne to Picasso, January-March 1941, no. 37 (with incorrect dimensions).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of French Art lent by the Museums and Collectors of France, April-May 1941, no. 121 (illustrated, pl. L; with incorrect dimensions).
Portland Art Museum, Masterpieces of French Painting, September-October 1941, no. 85.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum; The Arts Club of Chicago and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 20th Century Portraits, December 1942-July 1943, p. 141 (illustrated, pl. 84).
New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., French and American Paintings of the 20th Century, August-September 1943, no. 18.
The Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings, in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, February-March 1944, p. 33, no. 49 (with incorrect dimensions).
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Cincinnati Art Museum and St. Louis Art Museum, French Paintings of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1939, December 1944-February 1945, p. 56, no. 51 (illustrated, p. 16).
New York, Duveen Brothers, Inc., Picasso: An American Tribute, The Classic Phase, April-May 1962, no. 35 (illustrated).
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan, December 2010-August 2011).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1952, vol. 5, no. 30 (illustrated, pl. 19).
C. Geelhaar, Picasso: Wegbereiter und Förderer seines Aufstiegs, 1899-1939, Zürich, 1993, p. 145 (illustrated in situ at the Wildenstein & Co., Inc. 1923 exhibition).
M. FitzGerald, Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art, New York, 1995, p. 123 (illustrated in situ at the Wildenstein & Co., Inc. 1923 exhibition).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Cologne, 1999, pp. 356-357 and 516, no. 1306 (illustrated, p. 357; titled The Letter Begun).
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, New York, 2007, vol. III, p. 247.
signed and dated ‘Picasso 23’ (lower right); dated '16 Avril-23' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 31 7/8 in. (100.3 x 81 cm.)
Painted in Paris, 16 April 1923
