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Avant la pique by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Avant la pique, 1960

Brush and black ink on paper
47.6 x 72.1 cm (18.75 x 28.38 in)
Works on Paper
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (14 Nov 2015)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 14, 2015
Christie'sNew YorkIMPRESSIONIST & MODERN WORKS ON PAPER1120
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Avant la pique
Jun 25, 2009
Sotheby'sLondonImpressionist and Modern Art Day Sale163
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Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

47.6 x 72.1 cm (18.75 x 28.38 in)

Materials

brush and black ink on paper

Provenance

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona (1961).

Private collection, Mexico.

Private collection (2003); sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2009, lot 163.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Barcelona, Sala Gaspar, Picasso, Dibujos, Gouaches, Acuarelas, April 1961, no. 65 (illustrated; titled Suerte de varas).

Prague, Municipal House, Tauromaquia, Picasso, Dali´, Goya, Filla, C?apek, December 2011-April 2012, p. 21 (illustrated in color).

Sao Paulo, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, Tauromaquia, Picasso, Dalí, Goya, May-June 2014.

Wroclaw, Muzeum Architektury, Tauromachia, Picasso, Dalí, Goya, July-November 2014.

Literature

J. Sabartés, A Los Toros avec Picasso, Monte Carlo, 1961, p. 87, no. 52 (illustrated).<br>C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1968, vol. 19, no. 307 (illustrated, pl. 96).<br>The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, p. 69, no. 60-186 (illustrated).