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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Christie's | London | Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I | 305 | $****** - ****** | La Coiffure (Femme se coiffant) | |||
Nov 12, 1988 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Drawings & Watercolours | 125 | Estimates not disclosed | La coiffure, woman combing her hair |
Works on Paper
31 x 22.7 cm (12.2 x 8.94 in)
charcoal on paper
Leo Stein (1872-1947) & Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), United States & Paris; acquired directly from the artist.
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), United States & Paris; by descent from the above in 1946.
Georges E. Seligmann (1896-1998) & Edna Seligmann (1903-1952), New York; acquired from the above in 1947; then by descent; their estate sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 4 November 1982, lot 9.
Sotheby"s, New York, 12 November 1988, lot 125.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
New York, The New Gallery, Picasso: an American Tribute , April - May 1962, no. 5 (ill.; with incorrect medium).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris - The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family , December 1970 - March 1971, p. 168 (titled "Study for Woman Combing Her Hair"; with incorrect medium).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso - A Retrospective , May - September 1980, p. 74 (ill.; titled "Study for Woman Combing Her Hair" and with incorrect medium).
London, Tate Gallery, Picasso: Sculptor/Painter , February - May 1994, no. 7, pp. 42 (ill.) & 256 (titled "Study for Woman Combing her Hair"; with incorrect medium).
Karlsruhe, Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg, Picasso - Zeichner des Menschen , October - December 1996, no. 24 (ill.; with incorrect medium).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pablo Picasso - Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, pp. 22-23 (ill.) & 77 (with incorrect medium).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers II - Von Toulouse-Lautrec bis Picasso , April - September 2000, pp. 74 (ill.) & 107.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Weibsbilder , September 2000 - March 2001 (no cat.).
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning , November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 4, p. 110 (ill.; with incorrect medium).
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Picasso looks at Degas , June - September 2010, no. 202, pp. 180-181 (ill.) & 340 (titled "Woman Doing Her Hair"); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu Picasso, October 2010 - January 2011.
Paris, Musée d"Orsay, Picasso: Bleu et Rose , September 2018 - January 2019, no. 259, pp. 301 (ill.) & 384 (with incorrect medium).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso , vol. 6, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5 , Paris, 1954, no. 751 (ill. pl. 91; with incorrect medium).
W. Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art , New York, 1972, no. 20, pp. 36 & 194 (ill.; titled "Study for Woman Combing Her Hair").
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Life and Work of the Early Years, 1881-1907 , Oxford, 1981, no. 1366, pp. 473 (ill.) & 553 (titled "Sketches for "Kneeling Woman Plaiting Her Hair"; with incorrect medium).
W. Spies, Picasso, Das Plastische Werk , exh. cat., Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1983, pp. 26 (ill.) & 407 (with incorrect medium).
W. Spies, Picasso - The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, pp. 32 (ill.) & 425 (titled "Woman Combing Her Hair").
I. Conzen, A. Spotter & G. Messling, Picasso: Badende , exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2005, no. 2, p. 21 (ill.).
K. Jacobson (ed.), The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde , exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2011, no. 331, pp. 122 (ill.) & 441 (titled "Study for Woman Combing Her Hair"; with incorrect medium).
A. Temkin & A. Umland, Picasso Sculpture , exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, no. 19, p. 42 (ill.; titled "Study for Kneeling Woman Combing Her Hair").
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
La Coiffure (Femme se coiffant)
charcoal on paper
31 x 22,7 cm. (12 ¼ x 9 in.)
Executed in 1906
