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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 2, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 70 | $****** - ****** | L'étrangleur |
Works on Paper
72.3 x 59.4 cm (28.46 x 23.39 in)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
Signed Picasso (toward lower left)
Private Collection
Erwin Swann, New York
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1939)
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Blue Period - 1902-1904, San Francisco, 2011, no. 1904-085, illustrated p. 214; Phyllis Tuchman, "Picasso's Sentinel," Art in America, LXXXVI, no. 2, February 1998, p. 115; Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years 1881-1907, Barcelona, 1985, no. 1009, illustrated p. 393; Alberto Moravia & Paolo Lecaldano, L'Opera completa di Picasso, blu e rosa, Milan, 1968, no. 148, illustrated p. 98; Pierre Daix & Georges Boudaille, Picasso, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1900-1906, Paris, 1966, no. XI 14, illustrated p. 250; Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, vol. 6, Paris, 1954, no. 616, illustrated pl. 75
