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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2021 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper Sale | 598 | $****** - ****** | Le Mendiant | |||
Mar 21, 1988 | Guy Loudmer | Paris | Important Modern Pictures & Sculpture - Part I | 12 | $****** - ****** | Le Mendiant | |||
Nov 19, 1986 | Sotheby's | New York | N/A | 49 | $****** - ****** | Le Mendiant |
Works on Paper
31.1 x 12.1 cm (12.25 x 4.75 in)
pen and India ink and pencil on paper
signed 'Picasso' (lower left)
Mme Fouet Godon d'Albers, Armeau.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York (by 1939); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 8 April 1964, lot 7.
Fritz Katz, New York; Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1986, lot 49.
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired at the above sale); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 March 1988, lot 12.
Acquired by the late owner, August 1988.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis Art Museum and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: Forty Years of His Art , November 1939-May 1940, p. 35, no. 22 (illustrated; dated circa 1903).
Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., January-May 1941, p. 112, no. 195 (titled Old Beggar ; dated 1903).
A.H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art , New York, 1946, p. 114 (illustated; dated circa 1919-1921).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso , Paris, 1970, vol. 22, no. 108 (illustrated, pl. 36).
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le Mendiant
signed 'Picasso' (lower left)
pen and India ink and pencil on paper
12 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (31.1 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1903-1904
