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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper | 176 | $****** - ****** | Polaire | |||
Apr 11, 2013 | Christie's | Paris | Oeuvres Modernes sur papier | 41 | $****** - ****** | Polaire | |||
Feb 9, 2011 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 24 | $****** - ****** | Polaire |
Works on Paper
49.9 x 31.8 cm (19.63 x 12.5 in)
brush and pen and India ink on paper
signed and dated 'Ruiz Picasso 1901' (upper right) and titled 'Polaire' (lower left)
Galerie Percier, Paris.
Private collection, France (acquired from the above, 1934-1935); sale, Christie's, Paris, 11 April 2013, lot 41.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Paris, Musée Galliera, Les Peintres Témoins de leur temps: L'homme dans la ville, April-May 1954, p. 166 (illustrated; titled La chanteuse fantaisiste).
Paris, Musée Picasso and Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Picasso: Jeunesse et genèse, Dessins, 1893-1905, September 1991-February 1992, pp. 82-84 (detail illustrated, fig. 48).
Le Frou Frou, no. 48, September 1901, p. 820 (detail illustrated prior to signature).
R. Barotte, "Sur le thème de 'l'homme dans la ville,' voici comment 8 peintres voient Paris," Paris-Presse, 15 April 1954 (illustrated).
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, London, 1991, vol. I, p. 202 (detail illustrated prior to signature).
signed and dated 'Ruiz Picasso 1901' (upper right) and titled 'Polaire' (lower left)
brush and pen and India ink on paper
19 5/8 x 12 ½ in. (49.4 x 32.1 cm.)
Executed in 1901
