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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | PALETTE, PINCEAUX, LIVRE DE VICTOR HUGO |
paintings
38 x 46 cm (14.96 x 18.11 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Picasso (lower left)
Max Pellequer, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above by 1968)
James W. Alsdorf & Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago (acquired from the above on January 3, 1970 and until at least 1990)
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008
New York, Perls Galleries, 24 Major Acquisitions, 1968, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Museum of Modern Art & Basel, Kunstmuseum, Picasso and Braque. Pioneering Cubism, 1989-90, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1906 à 1912, Paris, 1942, vol.II, no. 260, illustrated pl. 129
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Picasso cubista, Milan, 1972, no. 396, illustrated p. 107
Pierre Daix & Joan Rosselet, Le Cubisme de Picasso. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint 1907-1916, Neuchâtel, 1979, no. 418, illustrated p. 268
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Cubisme (1907-1917), Paris, 1990, no. 583, illustrated p. 212 (titled Livre de Victor Hugo)
Picasso: The Artist’s Studio (exhibition catalogue), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut & The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 2001-02, illustrated in color p. 24
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Analytic Cubism, 1909-1912, San Francisco, 2015, no. 1911-080, illustrated p. 161 & illustrated in color p. XV
Signed Picasso (lower left)
Oil on canvas
15 by 18 1/8 in.
38 by 46 cm
Painted in Céret in August 1911.
