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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 8, 2011 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | La Lecture | |||
May 8, 1989 | Habsburg-Feldman | New York | Impressionist & Modern Pictures & Sculpture | 57 | $****** - ****** | La Lecture |
paintings
51 x 65.5 cm (20.08 x 25.79 in)
oil on panel
signed Picasso (upper right); inscribed 11 decembre M.CM.XXXII. on the reverse
(possibly) Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York (acquired by 1940) Keith Warner, Fort Lauderdale & New York Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 1963) Mr & Mrs David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above in January 1964) Mr & Mrs James W. Alsdorf, Chicago (acquired by 1980)
Sale: Habsburg, Feldman, New York, 8th May 1989, lot 57
Private Collection
Acquired by the present owner in 1996.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit & Zurich, Kunsthaus, Exposition Picasso, 1932, no. 197 (in Paris); no. 202a (in Zurich) (as dating from 1931 and titled La Lecture interrompue) New York, Valentine Dudensing Gallery, Three Spaniards: Gris, Miró, Picasso, 1940 Los Angeles, County Museum of History, Science and Art (on loan 1945-46) Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery & Baltimore, Museum of Art, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, 1965, no. 21, illustrated in the catalogue New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective, 1980, illustrated in the catalogue (titled The Dream (Reading) and as dating from January 1932).
P. Gréguen, 'Picasso: Primitif Cérébral', in Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1932, illustrated p. 114 J.L., 'Exhibitions of the Week: Three Spanish Painters, Gris, Miró, Picasso', in Art News, New York, 6th April 1940, illustrated p. 27 Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso, Geneva & Paris, 1944, illustrated pl. 168 (titled Femme endormie and as dating from 1932) Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, à Âuvres de 1926 à1932, Paris, 1955, vol. 7, no. 363, illustrated pl. 158 (with incorrect medium and measurements, and as dating from January 1932) Henri Dorra, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C., 1970, illustrated p. 77 Jean Leymarie, Picasso: Métamorphoses et unité, Geneva, 1971, illustrated p. 78 (as dating from January 1932) Margy P. Sharpe, The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Richmond, 1976, illustrated in colour p. 206 (titled La Lecture interrompue and as dating from 1932) The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Surrealism, 1930-1936, San Francisco, 1997, no. 32-002, illustrated p. 86 (with incorrect medium and as dating from January 1932) Picasso Harlequin, 1917-1937 (exhibition catalogue), Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2008-09, mentioned p. 204 (with incorrect medium and measurements) Picasso by Picasso, His First Museum Exhibition 1932 (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2010-11, illustrated in a photograph of the 1932 Galerie Georges Petit exhibition p. 98; illustrated in colour p. 243 (as dating from 1932).
