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Homme et femme by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Homme et femme, 1921

Pastel and charcoal on paper
104.8 x 73.8 cm (41.26 x 29.06 in)
Works on Paper
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
14.8%
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (08 May 2013)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 8, 2013
Christie'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Evening Sale38
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Homme et femme
Nov 2, 2010
Sotheby'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale31
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Homme et femme
Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

104.8 x 73.8 cm (41.26 x 29.06 in)

Materials

pastel and charcoal on paper

Signature

signed and dated 'Picasso 8-4-21-' (lower right)

Provenance

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris. Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (acquired from the above). Douglas Cooper, Argilliers (acquired from the above, July 1939). Jacques Ulmann, Paris. Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris.

Private collection, London (1990).

Private collection (1995);

sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 November 2010, lot 31.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982 (on loan). (possibly) London, Tate Gallery, 1990-1995 (on extended loan).

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1951, vol. 4, no. 224 (illustrated, pl. 78). W. Boeck and J. Sabartés, Picasso, New York, 1955, p. 187, no. 106 (illustrated, p. 467). D. Kosinski, "G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1061, August 1991, p. 531. The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Neoclassicism I, 1920-1921, San Francisco, 1995, p. 194, no. 21-101 (illustrated). J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Cologne, 1999, p. 510, no. 1008 (illustrated, p. 268; titled Couple and incorrectly dated 18 April 1921). A. Pophanken and F. Billeter, ed., Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, p. 404, no. 94.