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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | The David M. Solinger Collection Evening Auction | 19 | $****** - ****** | Femme dans un fauteuil |
paintings
130.5 x 97.2 cm (51.38 x 38.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed Picasso and dated 27 (upper left); dated janv. 1927 (on the reverse)
The artist (until at least 1955)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Acquired from the above through Kootz Gallery in March 1958 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, 1939, no. 208, p. 133, illustrated
Sao Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Exposição Picasso: II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1953-54, no. 20, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Picasso: Peintures 1900-1955 , 1955, no. 69, illustrated
New York, Kootz Gallery, Picasso: Five Master Works, 1958, no. 1
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Picasso: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of Cancer Care, Inc., The National Cancer Foundation , 1975, n.p., illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, 1980, p. 263, illustrated
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Grand Palais and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Matisse-Picasso, 2002-03, no. 112, p. 226, illustrated in color
Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art , 2002-03, p. 129, illustrated in color
Alfred H. Barr Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, 1946, p. 147, illustrated
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1926 à 1932 , vol. VII, Paris, 1955, no. 79, pl. 34, illustrated (before the artist's signature)
Pierre Daix, Picasso , New York, 1965, p. 136, illustrated
“ The Wrench of Stress and Violence, ” LIFE, vol. 65, no. 26, New York, 27 December 1968, p. 22, illustrated
Timothy Hilton, Picasso , London, 1975, fig. 115, n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picasso Surrealismus: Werke 1925-1937, 1991, no. 8, fig. 8a, p. 305, illustrated (titled Frau im Sessel )
Pierre Daix, Picasso: Life and Art , New York, 1993, pp. 206-07
Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac , The Ultimate Picasso , New York, 2000, no. 568, p. 237, illustrated
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso. Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 , New York, 2007, p. 331, illustrated (titled Marie-Thérèse Asleep in a Patterned Armchair )
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939) , Barcelona, 2011, fig. 28, p. 28, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Picasso, Picasso Tableaux Magiques , 2019-20, p. 52, illustrated in color
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Femme dans un fauteuil
signed Picasso and dated 27 (upper left); dated janv. 1927 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
51 ⅜ by 38 ¼ in. 130.5 by 97.2 cm.
Executed in January 1927.
